Below is an excerpt from the NHL.com game preview of the Habs/Leafs tilt tonight at ACC:
The Montreal Canadiens have the fewest regulation defeats in the league and have been very good on the road.
They will look to continue their early road success Saturday in Toronto against a struggling Maple Leafs team they easily defeated in October.
The Canadiens (8-1-2) are completing a four-game stretch of road games. Their 4-0-2 road record matches Buffalo’s for the best in the Eastern Conference.
Montreal, however, needed Sergei Kostitsyn’s goal with 41 seconds left to avoid its first regulation road loss Friday in Columbus. The Canadiens fell 4-3 in a shootout.
“We turned the puck over a few times in the neutral zone, and they took advantage of it,” Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau said.