A quick mix of the things we gleaned from the week of hockey, serious and less so, and rolling four lines deep. Sidelined 4-6 weeks with a broken heart.

1. We all imagined this.

Bite in the air.

Frost on the windshield.

No division in the division.

And the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens facing off at Le Centre Bell in prime time. Valuable points hanging in the balance, along with the requisite bragging rights.

“Can’t beat it on a Saturday night,” Canadien-turned-Leaf Max Domi told reporters Friday.

“It’s going to be a playoff-like game.”

Except the hate dream typically doesn’t posit a couple of mediocre hockey teams scraping for valuable points that may or may not contribute to a wild-card berth.

The Maple Leafs, regular-season kings of the division a few months ago, a

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