Carolina Hurricanes vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Tuesday, November 4, 2008 · Air Canada Centre
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Game summary
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–4 in overtime on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at Air Canada Centre. The Maple Leafs outshot the Hurricanes 42–24.
Mikhail Grabovski scored twice. Tuomo Ruutu, Dennis Seidenberg, Chad LaRose, Niklas Hagman, Ryan Bayda, Mike Van Ryn and Niclas Wallin also scored.
Cam Ward made 38 saves on 42 shots for the win; Vesa Toskala stopped 19 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Tuomo Ruutu (4)Chad LaRose (2)1–002:20 CAR
Dennis Seidenberg (1)Joe Corvo (2), Ray Whitney (7)2–005:06 CAR · 
Chad LaRose (4)Anton Babchuk (1), Josef Melichar (1)3–008:53 CAR
Niklas Hagman (4)Nikolay Kulemin (4), Mikhail Grabovski (2)3–113:52 TOR
Ryan Bayda (3)Ray Whitney (8)4–118:50 CAR
2nd period
Mikhail Grabovski (4)Niklas Hagman (6), Nikolay Kulemin (5)4–203:40 TOR · 
Mike Van Ryn (3)Nik Antropov (6), Matt Stajan (5)4–314:32 TOR
3rd period
- Mikhail Grabovski (5)Tomas Kaberle (6), Pavel Kubina (4)4–401:29 TOR
Overtime
Niclas Wallin (1)Tuomo Ruutu (4), Sergei Samsonov (2)5–401:52 CAR
Team stats
CARTOR
2442
52%48%
1/21/3
64
1517
2025
1915
127
Penalties
- 4:25 into the first period
Jason Blake · tripping2 min - 2:09 into the second period
Chad LaRose · holding the stick2 min - 15:37 into the second periodPavel Kubina · tripping2 min
- 6:12 into the third periodAnton Babchuk · holding2 min
- 6:59 into the third periodTim Gleason · delaying game puck over glass2 min
Season series
Carolina Hurricanes
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18:19 |
| 15Tuomo RuutuL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 16:21 |
| 59Chad LaRoseR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 15:30 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:45 |
| 18Ryan BaydaL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:20 |
| 4Dennis SeidenbergD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 26:05 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 22:54 |
| 22Josef MelicharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:12 |
| 33Anton BabchukD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:40 |
| 77Joe CorvoD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25:36 |
| 12Eric StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22:52 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:52 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:09 |
| 39Patrick DwyerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 03:52 |
| 44Patrick EavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:13 |
| 63Dwight HelminenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:18 |
| 6Tim GleasonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 25:57 |
| 28Wade BrookbankD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | W | 42 | 4 | .905 |
| 49Michael LeightonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 19:17 |
| 9Niklas HagmanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 19:28 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 18:32 |
| 14Matt StajanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:51 |
| 80Nik AntropovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:41 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 24:06 |
| 26Mike Van RynD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 22:46 |
| 77Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:55 |
| 10Alexander SteenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:34 |
| 19Dominic MooreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:17 |
| 21Jamal MayersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:48 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:16 |
| 39John MitchellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:37 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:00 |
| 2Luke SchennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:54 |
| 4Jeff FingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23:36 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:14 |
| 36Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Curtis JosephG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Vesa ToskalaG | O | 24 | 5 | .792 |