Toronto Maple Leafs: How the Senators Will Fare In Canadian Division

There’s a chance the  Toronto Maple Leafs play in an all Canadian division

The COVID-19 pandemic is still running wild in the world we live in today. It has shutdown the United States-Canada border for unessential travel which includes professional sports of all kinds.

Since this is the case, if the National Hockey League does indeed end up having a season, there’s a strong chance that the Toronto Maple Leafs and all the other Canadian based teams will be placed in one division to prevent having to cross the border.

If the all Canadian division does end up happening, one of the teams the Maple Leafs will have to often face is the Ottawa Senators.

Toronto Maple Leafs/Senators all time history

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Senators have played each other a total of 147 times with the teams having an even record against each other of 72-72-3. (Wikipedia.com).

As the Senators became a franchise in 1992, they didn’t get their first win against the Leafs until the 1996 season when they beat them 6-2. That game ended up being the first of four straight wins against the Leafs.

These two teams have seen each other in the playoffs four times with all but one of these matchups coming in the first round. The Senators have lost all their playoff matchups to the Leafs which included a sweep in the first round of the 2001 playoffs.

In the 2020 season, the Toronto Maple Leafs swept the Senators in their three game series beating them 5-3 on opening night, 2-1 in overtime on February 1st and 4-2 two weeks later on the 15th. They were set to face each other for a fourth time in Ottawa on March 28th but that matchup ultimately never took place due to the postponement of the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.