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 Maple Leafs know they¡¯ve just completed the best statistical season in franchise history.And Frederik Andersen knows he now holds the team¡¯s all-time record for goalie wins in a season.What remains a mystery for the Leafs is their first-round playoff opponent.Andersen made 31 saves to pick up his 38th victory of the season Saturday and Toronto closed out its schedule by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4-2.The Leafs finished with a club-record 105 points ¨C bettering the 103 earned in the pre-lockout 2003-04 season before the shootout was introduced to break ties ¨C but will have to wait until the Boston Bruins play the Florida Panthers on Sunday to see where they open their next playoff chapter.A win for the Bruins over the Panthers Authentic Justin Bailey Jersey , who have been eliminated from postseason contention, would see Boston move into first in the Atlantic Division and set up a meeting between Tampa Bay and Toronto.A victory in regulation for the Panthers, meanwhile, would see the Leafs and Bruins square off.Asked if he would be watching Sunday¡¯s finale, a makeup game after Boston and Florida were snowed out in January, Andersen indicated he has other plans.¡±No,¡± he said. ¡±I¡¯m going to watch the Masters.¡±Auston Matthews scored his 34th goal of the season to match his jersey number and added an assist for Toronto (49-26-7), which also set club records for overall victories and home wins (29).Zach Hyman, Nazem Kadri and Patrick Marleau had the other goals for the Leafs, who are going to the playoffs for the second consecutive spring. Jake Gardiner added two assists.Andersen¡¯s 37 victories coming in saw him sit tied with Ed Belfour (2002-03) and Andrew Raycroft (2006-07) for the most by a Toronto goalie in a season.Now he sits alone in first.¡±It¡¯s fun when you set goals at the beginning of the year and then you achieve some of them,¡± Andersen said. ¡±It goes without saying that there are bigger goals.¡±Leafs coach Mike Babcock was pleased to see his team come through for its goalie in a game that didn¡¯t mean anything in the standings.¡±He¡¯s been a huge part of our team,¡± Babcock said. ¡±That record is a special Kyle Okposo Jersey , special thing.¡±Daniel Carr and Jeff Petry scored for Montreal (29-40-13). Carey Price stopped 26 shots for the visitors as the Canadiens wrapped up a disappointing season.The players observed a moment of silence before the game to honor the victims of Friday¡¯s horrific crash in Saskatchewan that saw a tractor-trailer collide with a bus carrying a junior hockey team, killing 15 people and injuring 14 others.The Leafs and Canadiens also sported Broncos decals on their helmets.Tied 1-1 through 40 minutes, Hyman chipped a rebound past Price just 37 seconds into the third for his 15th goal and 40th point of the season after Matthews took the initial shot.Andersen made a good stop on Brendan Gallagher¡¯s one-timer with four minutes to go, before the Leafs went to the power play with 3:45 left when Michael McCarron hacked Matthews to the ice with the center bearing down on what could have been his 35th goal.But Kadri wouldn¡¯t be denied with 2:50 left when he backhanded his 32nd over Price before Petry then scored his 12th with 40.2 seconds left in regulation.Marleau put things to bed with his 27th on a Price mistake with 9.8 seconds still on the clock as the Canadiens limped to the finish line after topping the Atlantic with 103 points last season.¡±We¡¯re still playing the game we love,¡± Gallagher said. ¡±But the games haven¡¯t been meaningful.¡±Just never want to feel this (way) or go through this ever again.¡±Down 1-0 after Matthews extended his point streak to 10 games ¨C he now has seven goals and seven assists over that span ¨C late in the first, the Canadiens came close when Andersen denied Gallagher twice on a power play in the second.¡±He¡¯s been unbelievable for us, probably our best player all year,¡± Matthews said the Leafs goalie. ¡±He¡¯s kept us in games, won us games all throughout the year and been a brick wall.¡±Montreal got even with 3:56 left in the second when Carr scored his sixth on a rebound.Matthews struck on the power play with 1:55 left in the first when William Nylander wheeled down from the point, froze Price and delivered a sweet cross-ice feed for a wide-open net to get the ball rolling on a milestone night.Now all the Leafs can do is sit and wait to find out where they¡¯ll open the playoffs next week as the Atlantic¡¯s No. 3 seed ¨C either Boston or Tampa.¡±We don¡¯t know who we¡¯re playing,¡± Babcock said. ¡±Both teams are very good hockey clubs.¡±We¡¯re in for a great test and it should be a lot of fun.¡±UP NEXT:Canadiens: Season over.Maple Leafs: first round of the playoffs.¡ª WASHINGTON (AP) Dmitry Orlov scoring on Sergei Bobrovsky is a popular clip at a bar in their hometown in southwestern Siberia.¡±They always show my goal to him,¡± Orlov said. ¡±My friends said that.¡±Orlov and Bobrovsky are good friends going back to their time growing up together and have played together on the Russian national team with Alex Ovechkin http://www.officialsabres.com/authentic-adidas-rasmus-ristol ainen-jersey , Evgeny Kuznetsov and Artemi Panarin. They¡¯re split on opposite sides of a first-round series between Ovechkin, Kuznetsov and Orlov¡¯s Washington Capitals and Bobrovsky and Panarin¡¯s Columbus Blue Jackets. Game 1 is Thursday night in Washington.¡±They¡¯re good players, obviously, and we need to work (against) them,¡± Orlov said. ¡±Panarin have good skill so we need to not give him a lot of space and Bob we need to put more shots, more traffic on him. If we win, it will be nice.¡±Perhaps not since the Detroit Red Wings¡¯ Russian Five has a Stanley Cup playoff series had so many prominent players from Russia, with all eyes on those them as potential X-factors. It starts with Bobrovsky, a two-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender who aims to rebound from starting his NHL playoff career 3-10 with a 3.63 goals-against average and .887 save percentage.¡±He¡¯s going to rise to the occasion,¡± Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. ¡±He has every time he¡¯s been challenged. If I had to pick anybody in the league to go into the playoffs with it would be him, and I think he¡¯s pretty confident about the team in front of him.¡±The team in front of Bobrovsky is led by Panarin, whose 82 points are 25 more than the second-closest Columbus player.¡±The Blue Jackets have added a guy like Panarin www.blackhawksshoponline.com , I think he¡¯s a little bit of that difference make, just like we have some difference makers,¡± Washington coach Barry Trotz said. ¡±They can do some things that they maybe didn¡¯t have in the past. He¡¯s an exceptional player. We¡¯ve got some exceptional players. Sometimes in those tight series, those exceptional players can be the difference.¡±Ovechkin has made a difference all year, leading the NHL with 49 goals and scoring 19.1 percent of the Capitals¡¯ total over the course of the 82-game regular season. Kuznetsov caught fire late, recording 11 goals and 17 assists in the final 18 games of the regular season.¡±I would say he is mature, understands the game,¡± Ovechkin said of Kuznetsov. ¡±Everybody knew he would be a very good, solid player, a talent, and you can see how he plays right now.¡±Some things to watch when Columbus and Washington meet in the playoffs for the first time:GRUBAUER HOURBackup Philipp Grubauer got the nod to start Game 1 for the Capitals over 2016 Vezina winner and longtime No. 1 goaltender Braden Holtby. The 26-year-old German started a playoff game in place of Holtby in 2015 because of an illness, but he earned the starting job this time around by closing out the season 7-3-0 with a 2.32 goals-against average and .925 save percentage. Holtby went into a slump in February and March Chicago Blackhawks T-Shirts Womens , opening the door for Grubauer to seize the opportunity. But Trotz only named Grubauer his starter for Game 1 and said he¡¯ll take the decision game by game.TORTORELLA TIMEBlue Jackets coach John Tortorella will face the Capitals in a playoff series for the sixth time after going 3-2 with the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers. Tortorella has beaten ¨C and lost to ¨C Washington this time of year with less-talented teams than he has right now, particularly after the addition of winger Thomas Vanek and defenseman Ian Cole at the trade deadline made Columbus a high-scoring machine.¡±I think we¡¯re playing some of our best hockey, both as a group and certainly the individuals,¡± Tortorella said. ¡±I think with them and the additions at the deadline, I think our group feels really good about itself.¡±ACTIVE DWashington¡¯s John Carlson led all NHL defenseman with 68 points in the regular season and yet still might not be the best on the blue line in this series. Columbus has Norris Trophy dark horse Seth Jones, who along with Zack Werenski give the Blue Jackets some serious offense.SPECIAL TEAMSOne area the Capitals have a huge advantage is on the power play and penalty kill, where they¡¯re ranked seventh and 15th in the league. The Blue Jackets are 15th on the power play and 26th on the penalty kill. Since the trade deadline, though, Columbus has scored on 25 percent of its power plays.¡ªAP Sports Writer Mitch Stacy in Columbus, Ohio, contributed.¡ª


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