New York Red Bulls II will play their 2016 USL regular season home finale as league champions, which will surely be a pleasant feeling. The team still has a few records to play for, and might be expected to enjoy an on-paper Eastern Conference mismatch: table-topping NYRB II vs rock-bottom FC Montreal. But the standings are deceptive. Montreal may be bottom of the East and second-bottom of the league, but it is one of USL's hottest teams at the moment.
Montreal's season fell apart under the strain of 19 losses over the 28 games it has played to date, but only one of those has arrived in its last seven matches.