The 29.2% most important night of Maple Leafs' season
How did they pull that off?
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The Toronto Maple Leafs aren't traveling the journey they would've hoped to be on at this point in the season. That makes the goals, the positives and the negatives a bit different than they normally would be in the stretch run. And that makes Saturday night's game with the St.
Louis Blues a particularly important night, maybe the most important of the Maple Leafs' season so far when you consider what happened around the rest of the NHL. Toronto was crushed by the Blues, and it shifted the potential for the Maple Leafs to retain their draft pick considerably. The Leafs' first-round pick conveys to the Boston Bruins if it ends up outside the top-five.
And not only did the Leafs move to having a worse record than the Blues after St. Louis beat Toronto -- Winnipeg also won Saturday in surprise fashion over Colorado, which made Toronto's record worse than the Jets, too. MORE: Alex Ovechkin snaps an unfathomable streak The Maple Leafs entered the night with an 87.