Editing Toronto Maple Leafs (section)

==== Buffalo Sabres ====
The rivalry between the [[Buffalo Sabres]] and Toronto Maple Leafs is due to the 100-mile (160 km) distance between their home arenas ([[KeyBank Center]] and [[Scotiabank Arena]] respectively). The Sabres won 70 of 103 all-time home games against the Maple Leafs from their inception in 1970–71 until 2015–16 (the last season before Toronto drafted [[Auston Matthews]]), despite the always large contingency of Toronto fans at those games.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Augello |first=Michael |title=Sabres – Maple Leafs Rivalry Percolates After Shutout Loss |url=https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/latest-news/sabres-maple-leafs-rivalry-percolates-after-shutout-loss- |access-date=March 16, 2025 |website=The Hockey News}}</ref> Since the [[1998–99 NHL season|1998–99]] season, both teams have played in the Northeast Division, now the Atlantic Division. Buffalo won the [[1999 Stanley Cup playoffs|1999 Eastern Conference finals]] against Toronto in five games, the only playoff series between the two teams. During the [[2018–19 NHL season|2018–19 season]], Toronto swept Buffalo in the season series for the first time ever. Buffalo previously swept a season series with Toronto in [[1979–80 NHL season|1979–80]], [[1987–88 NHL season|1987–88]], and [[1991–92 NHL season|1991–92]]. Due in part to the number of Leafs fans living near or in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], and in part to Buffalo's relative proximity to Toronto and the rest of Ontario, Maple Leafs–Sabres games at the [[KeyBank Center]] in Buffalo typically hold near 80 percent of Leafs fans, making it the largest away crowd of the NHL.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kloke |first=Joshua |date=November 3, 2016 |title=Maple Leafs and Sabres on the verge of renewing rivalry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/24711/2016/11/03/maple-leafs-and-sabres-on-the-verge-of-renewing-rivalry/ |access-date=March 16, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>