The Toronto Maple Leafs eighth game of the season comes with strange circumstances.
Not only are the Toronto Maple Leafs mired in in a horrible slump while simultaneously seeming to have used up all the goodwill their fans had to offer over the last 54 years, they will be taking on the winless Blackhawks, who are reeling from one of the worst scandals in NHL history.
In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, the Blackhawks have been fined $2 million dollars by the NHL and fired their GM for one of the most horrendous things that has ever happened in the NHL.