The last time the Nashville Predators came to Toronto they didn’t actually get to play. The game was set for the Thursday of the now infamous week of March 2020 when the pandemic swept across North America. The Maple Leafs had played only two days earlier, hosting the Lightning in a game where Auston Matthews scored his 47th goal of the season on the way to a Leafs 2-1 victory.
That game feels like it was far more than only 20 months ago, yet, that is how long it has been, and now, finally, the Predators get to have their game.