TORONTO (AP) -- The Toronto Maple Leafs are making a habit of falling behind early, and coming back late.

	Toronto's Wendel Clark, left, sends Ottawa's Jason York flying into Senators goaltender Ron Tugnutt, right.

Igor Korolev scored two goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied from a two-goal deficit to tie the Ottawa Senators 3-3 Monday night.

On Saturday, Toronto trailed Washington by two goals early before earning a 5-5 tie.

"I don't know what it is, but since Christmas, whenever we have a few days between games we always start off sluggish," Toronto captain Mats Sundin said. "We have a bad habit of getting down a goal or two."

Korolev, who scored the tying goal early in the third period, has six goals in his last six games. He has 14 goals in 47 games this season, one more than he had in 66 games last season. Mike Johnson also scored for Toronto.

Daniel Alfredsson, Wade Redden and Marian Hossa scored for Ottawa, which outshot Toronto 41-28, including 27-10 during the second and third periods.

"That's what we try to do against Toronto, take shots, because you have to keep shooting against a good goalie like Curtis Joseph," Ottawa defenseman Jason York said. "Give Toronto credit for coming back like they did. And we weren't able to beat CuJo again."

Sundin had the best chance in overtime, but he couldn't corral a loose puck in the crease. The Leafs then had to kill off a holding-the-stick penalty assessed to Sundin.

Toronto coach Pat Quinn didn't agree with the call.

"How many holds and hooks got by all night? I've never seen a dive on a holding-the-stick call," Quinn said.

"The referee was in the right spot to make the call," Ottawa coach Jacques Martin said. "We applied pressure, but couldn't score."

Alfredsson opened the scoring at 8:15 of the first, putting a blast from the top of the circle over the glove hand of Joseph, who made 38 saves.

Redden made it 2-0 at 11:25, banging in Yves Sarault's rebound from a sharp angle.

The Leafs got on the board at 17:35 when Korolev converted Bryan Berard's pass from the point on the power play.

Toronto outshot Ottawa 16-10 in the first, but it took almost nine minutes to register a shot on Senators goalie Ron Tugnutt in the second.

By that time, it was 3-1 for Ottawa after Hossa slipped through Toronto's defense and scored on a rebound 44 seconds into the period.

Toronto narrowed it to 3-2 late in the second period when Jonas Hoglund batted the puck out of midair to Johnson, who batted it past Tugnutt.

The Senators lost four defensemen for stretches in the first and second periods. Chris Phillips fell awkwardly into the boards in the first; Janne Laukkanen needed to rest in the second period because of flulike symptoms; Patrick Traverse had a puck deflect off his face; and Jason York took a stick on the chin in the second.

All returned except for Traverse, who was taken to hospital for examination. Laukannen didn't play in the third period, leaving the Senators with just four defensemen.

Toronto left wing Sergei Berezin and defenseman Alexander Karpovtsev returned to the lineup after extended absences. Berezin missed five games with a strained hamstring, and Karpovtsev missed four with a broken hand.