Leafs and Rangers meet tonight at MSG. Leafs dropped a point behind the Panthers after Florida beat the Oilers last night. Edmonton is 0-4-0 since the break ended, all on the road, outscored 21-10. Overall the Oilers have lost 5 straight.
Thanks to that, Leafs are a point behind Florida for the top spot in the Atlantic, however Toronto has two games in hand.
On the other side of the fence tonight, we have the Rangers who are four points out of a playoff spot. Adam Fox on fire lately (2G, 6A) during a 7 game point streak. Matthews also has a 7 game point streak (1G, 9A). Matthews has 10G. 12A in 22 career games against the Rangers, including a goal earlier this year against the blue shirts. Matthews has had great success against Shesterkin, 7G in 10 games against him. I think #34 ends his scoring (on a goalie) slump tonight.
At press time, not sure who starts between the pipes for the Rangers, Quick sits on 799 career games played (781 starts). The 799 games played has Quick T17th all-time in GP by a goalie in NHL history with Khabibulin.Quick will become the second American born goalie with 800 games played (Vanbiesbrouck-882).
Toronto (11-3-0) has the NHL's best road record since Dec 18. While the Rangers since the turn of the 2024/25 calendar have the 6th best record in the NHL (13-6-3, .659).
Winnipeg's 11 game win streak came to an end last night in Nashville. NHL's longest streak of W's this season. And they also are tied for the second longest win streak of the season at 8, along with Carolina.
NHL's longest active win streak now belongs to Tampa Bay with 7. Business just picked up in the Atlantic.
Column Saturday morning to breakdown the Friday night result and look ahead to Sunday's matinee in Pittsburgh.
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