Tonight is the 81st game of the Maple Leafs schedule and the last regular season game to be play at the Scotiabank Arena. The Maple Leafs are locked in to their #3 seed position for a first round match up with the Boston Bruins, and the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Presidents’ Trophy back in October or something.
Neither team has anything to play for tonight, aside from pride, perhaps. This is a completely meaningless game and if I were the head coach, and could get away with it, I would have forfeited the game Tuesday morning, slept in today, and ran practices until we had to leave for Montreal - unless Saturday’s game will be meaningless as well then I’d forfeit that and just wait for the playoffs to start.