This will be rough after playing in Toronto last night with just 11 forwards so everyone had to pick up the slack and then travel after the game.
At best: assuming Leafs game was over around 10:00 PM, quick showers, hop on bus, to the airport by 11:00-11:30, two hour flight gets them to Raleigh Durham airport at 1:15 AM, on bus and @ the hotel by 2:00 AM. Guys might be just waking up now and gotta play the team with the 2nd best record in the Eastern Conference whose game is a relentless attack of wave after wave of offense and puck possession, has won three in a row including vs Dallas and Vegas and was rested last night and gets home cooking.
Prepared for a let down. Tarasov already gets a pre-game-mulligan for whatever happens tonight in my book.