The Maple Leafs beat the Rangers on Thursday night in the season finale for both teams.
— Noel Acciari scored the go-ahead goal late in third period, Joseph Woll made 22 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat theAcciari nudged the puck past goal Jaroslav Halak with 7:39 left to snap a tie and send the Maple Leafs into the playoffs with a 5-0-1 record in their last six games.
Timothy Liljegren and William Nylander also scored for Toronto. Artemi Panarin and Kaapo Kakko scored for the Rangers. The assist was the 60th of the season for Fox. He and Brian Leetch are the only two defensemen in Rangers history to have multiple 60-plus assist seasons. Fox had a career-high 63 assists last season.Kakko scored at 1:38 of the second as he beat Woll for his 18th with an assist to Vincent Trocheck.The Rangers finished 47-22-13, third in the Metropolitan Division with 107 points and will face the New Jersey Devils in the first round of the playoffs.
"It's a new year, a new playoffs against a team that we didn't play last year," Zibanejad said of the speedy Devils, who won 52 games this season."We know what we have to do. We know what makes us successful ... They are fast team, they play fast. They punish you if you make mistakes in the neutral zone."
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