Last week, the Canadiens played three high-stakes games. They eliminated the Stars and Panthers before doing some major damage to the Lightning’s aspirations, and in doing so, they earned themselves an Atlantic division title.
They also earned themselves the privilege of a week’s worth of mostly meaningless games, the second of which comes this evening against the Buffalo Sabres.
The Sabres entered the week sitting third-last in the Eastern Conference, ahead of just the Detroit Red Wings and New Jersey Devils, and suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday.