NHL’s red-hot Atlanta Thrashers beat the slumping Toronto Maple Leafs with a final score of 6-3 on Monday. Fredrik Modin and Tobias Enstrom both helped the team as they scored a pair of goals during the game.

Andrew Ladd and Anthony Stewart also scored helped to regain the Thrashers top spot in the Southeast Division from the Washington Capitals as they got their sixth victory in nine games.

Three goals scored by Toronto came from the power play, Nikolai Kulemin, Mikhail Grabovski, and John Mitchell.

This defeat brings the struggling Maple Leafs to their five-day Christmas break, including their three-game losing place.

Clearly, the home team did not receive any Christmas cheer from the crowd since they heartlessly booed the Leafs on the latter part of the game. It has become a way for Toronto fans to complain against the team’s slumping play.

Mitchell told the reporters that their fan’s reactions were kind of a slap in the face. However, he hopes their fans will think differently and they just have to be better on the ice.

He also added that the first shift in the game was tough and they couldn’t work it out and everyone was just protesting all over the place.

The Thrashers scored two on their first three shots. Modin beat Jonas Gustavsson with a slap shot, while Enstrom added a power-play tally after 28 seconds.

Toronto recovered from their lapse earlier during the game by pulling one back in the second when Mitchell gave a big rebound and made wrist shot past Ondrej Pavelec. However, Modin made a two-goal cushion for the Trashers with only 56 seconds remaining in the clock.