The Maple Leafs travel for the first game of a back-to-back that sees them come right back home to face the Kraken tomorrow. Is that a smart schedule? Nope. And yet it’s what we have since the NHL carved out a hole for the Olympics and then discovered that Covid was carving a hole out of their teams. March has an easier schedule than February, and even has a week with only two games in it, but the back-to-backs will continue until morale improves.
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Columbus is in the liminal space where their fans and maybe even their GM can pretend they’ll make the playoffs, but they aren’t, and they should trade away some players at the deadline.