lots of people in this thread.
Any coaches care to comment on their own personal experience around momentum?
anyone want to go on record saying it doesn't matter if you lose a bunch of games in a row going into the playoffs?
meh, we know our path.
it is known.
I will easily go on the record.
It does play a factor but it's not an absoulte.
There are times where teams rest players and it hinders their pergormance, and times it works and players come ready to go. Besides, if the Leafs finished hot it would be dismissed as not mattering because it wasn't the playoffs.
The Leafs have obviously just been playing to get Matthews his 70th and it could very well burn them. The good news is that Bos also gave up on the season and has been garbage as well.
Whoever wakes up first in the series has a good chance.