'“We knew it was probably going to come down to the last day or the night before, so there’s not a lot of difference,” said Sabres coach Lindy Ruff, who went out to dinner rather than watch the crucial Leafs-Habs tilt. “I wasn’t that keen on watching. Originally, I was. Then I thought, it’s going to be who it’s going to be. As it turned out, now it’s out of both those teams’ hands.”'