Jamal Mayers, Lee Stempniak and Ian White scored for the already-eliminated Toronto Maple Leafs in a 3-2 victory against the playoff-hopeful Philadelphia Flyers last night at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

Arron Asham and Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers, who were outworked all game by the Maple Leafs. Mayers and Asham exchanged goals in an evenly played opening period.

The Flyers, fourth in the Eastern Conference, are tied in points with the Penguins with just over one week left in the season. The top four teams in each conference earn home-ice advantage.

Other games

• Thrashers 3, Sabres 2: Ilya Kovalchuk scored on an unassisted breakaway with 29.9 seconds left in overtime to give host Atlanta a victory against Buffalo. The goal was Kovalchuk's 41st and gave him 30 in 37 games.

• Capitals 5, Islanders 3: Mike Green's two power-play goals less than 1Â 1/2 minutes apart in the third and Alex Ovechkin's NHL-leading 54th tally helped host Washington defeat New York to close in on a second consecutive division title

• Blackhawks 3, Blues 1: Nikolai Khabibulin made 16 saves, and Jonathan Toews, Samuel Pahlsson and Colin Fraser scored for host Chicago, which snapped St. Louis' five-game winning streak.

nCoyotes 3, Avalanche 0: Al Montoya made 23 saves to earn a shutout in his first NHL game, Mikkel Boedker and Shane Doan scored a goal each, and Phoenix beat visiting Colorado.

Note

• The Maple Leafs were fined $500,000 by the NHL and stripped of a fourth-round draft pick because of how they handled the signing of Swedish defenseman Jonas Frogren. Frogren, who has been on the injured list since early March, had been under contract to a Swedish elite league club before joining Toronto. The transaction apparently went around the NHL's collective bargaining agreement.