Toronto had several members of its organization hitting milestones tonight, as Mike Babcock coached his 1000th game, Dion Phaneuf played his 800th game, Joffrey Lupul played his 700th, and Nazem Kadri played his 300th. The team also honoured Darryl Sittler for his record-setting 10-point night prior to the game in a rather lengthy ceremony that saw most of the old members of the team from that night trotted out.
The Leafs started the game out looking strong, but Matt Hunwick took a delay-of-game penalty just 4 minutes into the contest for flipping the puck over the glass from his own end, sending the Devils to the power play.