NEW YORK, April 10 (UPI) -- Mats Sundin scored his 40th goal of the season Wednesday night and Darcy Tucker and Cory Cross each added a pair as the Toronto Maple Leafs clinched home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs with a 7-2 rout of the New York Rangers.
Sundin reached the 40-goal plateau for the third time in his career and needs one goal to match his Toronto high set two years ago. He notched a career-high 47 goals for the Quebec
Nordiques in the 1992-93 campaign.
The Maple Leafs clinched fourth place in the Eastern Conference and will have the extra game in a possible first-round playoff series.
Toronto also kept alive its slim hopes of winning the Northeast Division, pulling to within three points of idle Boston with two games to play.
The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the Rangers, who need to win Saturday's finale at Philadelphia to finish the season at .500.
After Tucker got the first of his two goals 6:09 into the game, the Rangers tied it on Pavel Bure's power-play tally with 8:44 left in the opening period. It was his 12th goal in 11 games since being acquired from Florida before the March 19 trade deadline.
But Cross and Tucker scored second-period goals that caromed off opposing players to give the Maple Leafs a 3-1 lead with 5:02 left.
Eric Lindros responded 79 seconds later, pulling the Rangers to within 3-2, but Toronto broke it open with four unanswered goals in the third period.
