Toronto Maple Leafs play hosts to Tampa Bay Lightning in the fourth and final meeting between the two sides
The first game of Monday will be hosted by Toronto Maple Leafs as they play host to Tampa Bay Lighting at the Air Canada Center.
This will be the fourth and final game between the two teams during the course of the season.
Out of the three games that have already been played between the two teams during the season, Lightning has won all the three games.
The last game which took place on the 25th of January 2011, Lightning managed to come up with a decent performance that saw them winning the game in a shutout 3-2 performance.
Lightning after that have been in good form which have seen them winning 11 games in regulation time, scoring a point in the five games and losing four games.
It is not odd to see a team that desperately needs points comes up with decent results and loses a game or two.
Maple Leafs were facing the same problem as they lost three games in a row but they came up with a dominating performance that saw them winning the game 4-3 against Buffalo Sabres this past Saturday.
Lightning has been disappointing so far during the month of March which has seen them winning just one game.
Though Lightning was one of the strong teams at the start of the season, their form has form has dropped a great deal.
The bottom tier teams have come up with decent results but the Lightning has come across a recent slump.
"The games that used to go our way just don't go our way now," Coach Guy Boucher said in the St. Petersburg Times after Saturday's 4-3 overtime loss to Florida.
Both teams have played 69 games during the course of the season out of which Lightning have won 38 games in regulation time and nine games in overtime to score a total of 85 points.
Maple Leafs has won 30 games in regulation time and 10 games in overtime to score a total of 70 points.
One of the most difficult things during a game is that it is very difficult to win a way back into the game when a team is trailing as the final period begins.
They have faced quite a few problems as they have won just three games after falling behind.
In their last game against Buffalo Sabres, they were down 3-2 but Maple Leafs managed to find their way back into the game as they scored twice to win the game by 4-3 in the end.
"We didn't have much option," Dion Phaneuf said of the comeback "the biggest period" he's participated in since joining the Leafs. "We knew where we were, we knew where they were in the standings and we knew what points were on the line. There was no other
way. We talked about it [in the intermission], we said we had to throw everything we had at them and we did".
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