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The Hurricanes are the winners of the Jake Guentzel sweepstakes.

Michael Bunting wasn’t your average NHL rookie in 2021-22 with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

BOSTON — The Bruins and Maple Leafs provided everything you could have hope for with a Saturday night divisional rivalry game that we see so few of these days.

TORONTO — Ryan O’Reilly and Vladimir Tarasenko have combined for more than 500 goals and more than 1,200 points over their distinguished NHL careers. This season, they represent two of the four Blues’ players who have scored at least 10 goals this season.

NEW YORK — This was supposed to be a killer portion of the schedule for the Rangers, who were struggling coming into it.

The Bruins have won games in all kinds of manner this year but, on Saturday night in Toronto, they might've got what they deserved in a 2-1 loss to the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena.

BRANDON, Fla. — The Lightning had one distinct advantage playing on home ice for the first time this postseason: the last line change, allowing them to create favorable matchups with Toronto.

They aren't the highest-scoring points line in the NHL. That's the Calgary line of Johnny Gaudreau, Elias Lindholm and Matthew Tkachuk with 192 points going into Monday night's game. They aren't the best goal-scoring line. That's Toronto's Michael Bunting, Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner with 79 goals. But they are…

DETROIT — How did that happen?