They did it, folks!

The Leafs took down the Montreal Canadiens in the season finale, and in doing so, finally put us out of our misery in terms of riding out the regular season.

In all seriousness, tonight, the Leafs crossed the 105-point mark for the first time in their 101 year history to complete their best regular season of all time. Frederik Andersen also picked up his 38th win of the season to surpass Andrew Raycroft’s dubious record for most in a season. All is well in the world, and now we wait to see whether Tampa or Boston will arrive first as the Stanley Cup Playoffs are on the horizon.

Despite failing to match his 40-goal mark from last season, Auston Matthews at least made it to his Champagne Goal tonight:

A beautiful feed on the fake-out from William Nylander, and a pretty number to round out the regular season. #34 gets his 34th of the season to put the Leafs up 1-0.

That’s all the first period would write.

I’ve gotta say, I’ve been becoming a bit of a Roman Polak fan in recent games as he’s entered Late Season Polak form. This one, however…

Polak doing his best Tom Sestito impression to give us flashbacks to last season’s twilight days. Meaningless game and a meaningless goal at the end of the day, but Daniel Carr ties it up 1-1.

All right, now it’s time for the scoring to heat up.

Noted first-liner Zach Hyman streaks down the middle of the ice, and despite being stopped follows up to put the puck past Carey Price. His 15th of the season – not too shabby at all – to give the Leafs the lead once again.

And then…

How’s that for a sexy backhand? Nazem Kadri notches his 32nd(!!) of the season off a feed from Tyler Bozak, roofing the puck past Carey Price and making the Habs look silly in the process. Just delicious. 3-1 good guys.

Later on, Ron Hainsey would do… uhh, a thing:

Should have probably rested Ron before the playoffs, if even to avoid this ever having happened to him. A bad deflection finds its way past Freddie Andersen to make it 3-2 in the last minute.

Luckily, however, that wouldn’t be the last gaffe of the game.

A perfect summary of the Habs’ season, because poetic justice exists. Carey Price gifts the Leafs another goal, Marleau’s 27th, and another Leafs win. The Leafs take the game 4-2 and head into the playoffs having swept the Habs 4-0 in their season series. Damn, that feels good to write.

The Leafs controlled this one, ending the night with a 53.17% possession advantage.

Classic suits, cramping my style.

Huh. Nice.

Can I get a he’ll yeah?

Playoffs, baby.

Life is good. The buds are all day.

See you next week!