Maple Leafs Set to Tangle with the Habs Tonight at the ACC
The Toronto Maple Leafs, recently on a streak of futility having lost their last three games after an excellent 3-0 win against the Ottawa Senators, are going to be hosting the Montreal Canadiens this evening at the Air Canada Centre. Toronto has played reasonably well this year against the Habs with a 2-0-1 record against their historical rivals. This game could be the chance the Leafs have to halt this losing streak here and do what they can to pick up the pieces of their season and try to get themselves back to within striking distance of a playoff spot by the all star break.
You can expect the pubs downtown to be packed with spectators for this game as a Montreal/Toronto matchup always draws the part-time hockey fans out of the works and into the pubs to watch. Furthermore, since tickets are so expensive to watch the actual game itself, many of the pubs have promotions going on during game time in order to entice people out to watch the games at the pubs. One pub near the University of Toronto has $0.25 chicken wings during each game and another pub in Scarborough near where I live has half-price appetizers during all games. If you’re a fan of hockey then you’ll find little better than a matchup between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, so make sure that you find a nice place to sit down and watch the two teams go at each other!
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Go Leafs!! It’s been a tough few years for them.
Even though I was born in Toronto I’m actually a Sabres fan first and foremost (I know, booooo!!) but I spent my childhood in Niagara Falls, NY mostly (and 1 year in Niagara Falls, Canada) but my Mom and all my Mom’s side is from Buffalo so I’ve always sided with them.
Sabres-Leafs is huge and I’m probably about the only person who loves one and doesn’t hate the other!!
The way I look at it, Buffalo fans deserve to have a better team than Toronto fans. After all, they have to live in Buffalo
But seriously, the Leafs are dead this year again. I just hope the fans wake up and stop going to the games and give MLSE some incentive to improve the team, but I know that’s a lost cause.
Hey Justin! I didn’t know this blog existed! This is great! Poor Leafs, though. I hope the season turns around for them – quickly!
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