Game 607
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Saturday, January 25, 1986
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Bobby Smith said it and the words were echoed by several of his Montréal Canadien mates.
“We see the way the Maple Leafs play against us and wonder what they’re doing in 20th place,” Smith said.
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Game 606
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, January 1, 1986
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs were shorthanded, a patchwork assembly of incumbents and call-ups, because of a 10-man injury list.
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Game 605
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, December 7, 1985
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It was once the quintessential National Hockey League confrontation.
But the young Toronto Maple Leafs of 1985, a team struggling to regain respectability, aren’t quite ready to recreate the rivalry with the Montréal Canadiens that conjures up memories of “The Rocket” and Syl Apps, “The Big M” and Jean Béliveau, Davey Keon and “The Pocket Rocket.”
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Two Solitudes 