SportsLine.com looks at the players who turned in the top individual performances in Monday night's action.

Other April stars of the night

Steve Thomas, LW, Toronto Maple Leafs

Steve Thomas(AP)

It won't count as a hat trick because it came over two games, but the three consecutive goals Steve Thomas scored for Toronto in Games 5 and 6 may have been the team's most important this season. Thomas, who tied Game 5 late in the third period and then won it in overtime, saved Game 6 for the Maple Leafs. Ottawa had just scored early in the second period and was dominating play when Thomas intercepted an errant clearing pass by Sammi Salo and drilled the puck into the Ottawa goal. That cut the Senators lead to 2-1 and turned the tide. Three minutes later Thomas set up Mats Sundin for the tying goal before Toronto scored twice more to take a 4-2 lead into the dressing room.

Wendel Clark, RW, Toronto Maple Leafs

Wendel Clark(AP)

Toronto's experiment with bringing back veteran Wendel Clark this season has not been a great success, but the one-time Leafs captain showed Monday that there is still some life left in him. Dressing for only the second time in the series, Clark was an imposing presence in the Ottawa end, creating traffic in front of goalie Tom Barrasso and making sure that anyone who went into the corner felt some pain. Clark also drove the final nail in Ottawa's coffin when he managed to corral a bouncing puck and score Toronto's fourth goal of the second period at 18:47.