Losing another game to the Buffalo Sabres may be the difference in the Toronto Maple Leafs securing home-ice advantage this year.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are currently four points up on the Tampa Bay Lightning and five points up on the Boston Bruins with nine games remaining in the regular season. That may seem like a good gap but there’s still a lot of work to do.
In Toronto’s remaining nine games, they have to play Florida, Tampa Bay and Boston, so those three games may decide the Leafs fate of whom they’ll face in the playoffs.