TORONTO Ñ Rare is the AHL All-Star game that ends with boos from the home crowd, but Monday night's midseason matchup ended in such a fashion at the Ricoh Coliseum.

The boos, of course, were of a mild variety from a home crowd that saw its Canadian All-Stars lose 7-6 when PlanetUSA scored with 3.3 seconds to play in regulation.

The PlanetUSA team, drawing from the league's base of non-Canadian players, got a goal from Hartford rookie Ryan Callahan to put the finishing touch on a comeback that erased a 5-2 Canadian lead.

Chicago's Brett Sterling was named game MVP after a two-goal, one-assist performance for PlanetUSA.

Joe Motzko, recently acquired by the Portland Pirates, pumped in a third-period goal that helped spark PlanetUSA's third-period comeback. Motzko will leave Toronto and head to Portland to rejoin a dramatically remade Pirates team.

"I'm kind of excited for it," Motzko said. "New fresh start, new team.

"I just want to settle in Portland at the end of the week, kick back and relax, get to know the guys and see what we can do."

The first period of Monday night's game provided a typically wide-open affair that saw the Canadian team outshoot PlanetUSA, 21-14.

PlanetUSA beat Canadian goalie Jason LaBarbera twice in the opening 9:09.

Team captain Kip Miller opened the scoring and Sterling, the AHL's leading goal scorer with 39 in his first 47 games, made it 2-0.

The Canadian team tied the game on goals by Hershey's Alexandre Giroux and Martin St. Pierre of Norfolk late in the period.

The Canadians took command in the second period, getting consecutive goals in a span of 10:47 by Milwaukee defenseman Sheldon Brookbank, Manitoba's Jason Jaffray and Giroux's second of the game, to take a 5-2 lead.

Planet USA pulled to within 5-4 by the end of the second on a goal by Rochester rookie Drew Stafford and the second of the game by Sterling.

The teams combined for three goals in a 41-second span in the second half of the third period. PlanetUSA tied the game on Motzko's goal.

Then the AHL's leading scorer, Chicago's Darren Haydar, replied 26 seconds later to restore Canada's one-goal lead.

PlanetUSA promptly charged back to make it 6-6 on a goal by Erik Westrum of the hometown Marlies.

The record for the quickest three goals is 28 seconds, set back in 2001 at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.