The New York Rangers and visiting Toronto Maple Leafs have little at stake on Thursday when they meet in their respective regular-season finales at Madison Square Garden.
The Rangers (107 points), after all, are locked into the third seed in the Metropolitan Division. They will face the division’s second-place team — either the Hudson River rival New Jersey Devils or Carolina Hurricanes — in the first round of the playoffs.
The Maple Leafs (109 points), in turn, secured the second seed in the Atlantic Division and will tangle with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round.