TORONTO -- The only thing the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens will be left competing for next week is a good draft position. wholesale nfl jerseys . That reality cast a shadow over Saturdays regular-season finale between the two traditional rivals at Bell Centre, especially with members of both passionate fanbases hoping for a loss to secure the best position possible in the draft lottery. The teams themselves were each hoping to finish on a high note and expected the atmosphere to be as good as usual -- despite the stark reality of the standings. "Its an event," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said Friday. "It doesnt have the lustre obviously, but any time the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens play on a Saturday night, its an event. It will be highly attended and watched by fans from both hockey clubs and itll be a national game. "Its part of the fabric of hockey in Canada." It might also be one of the most meaningless regular-season games ever played between the franchises. This is just the third time that both teams failed to qualify for the playoffs in the same season -- fourth if you include the Habs and Toronto St. Patricks in 1925-26 -- making Saturdays game about little more than pride. Montreal needs a victory to avoid registering its lowest point total since 1999. Win or lose, the 30-35-16 Habs are assured of finishing no better than 28th in the NHLs overall standings, guaranteeing themselves a spot in the draft lottery. A Leafs victory on Saturday could keep them from joining the Canadiens in the group of five teams with a chance to win the No. 1 draft pick. They enter the game in 26th spot and would remain there with a loss. Its a precarious position for the franchise, with players and coaches looking to put their best foot forward and many fans hoping for better draft position -- and a brighter future. The Leafs left little doubt of their intentions Thursday by tying a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning with less than three minutes remaining before winning it in overtime on a goal by captain Dion Phaneuf. Theyre looking to follow it up with another victory over Montreal. "Theres a huge rivalry between our two teams, theres a lot of history," said Phaneuf. "Whether its in their building or our building, theres a lot of emotion. Theyre fun games to be a part of as a player. ... "We want to finish on a winning note." Teams will be looking for victories of a different time come Tuesdays draft lottery. The last-place Columbus Blue Jackets are assured of the best odds of landing the No. 1 overall pick at 48.2 per cent. The next four teams will have odds ranging from 18.8 per cent to 8.1 per cent. Neither Toronto or Montreal ever imagined it would be part of that conversation when the season began in October. The Leafs skated away with a 2-0 victory over the Habs on opening night at Air Canada Centre, but trouble would soon find both teams. James Reimer, the Leafs top goalie, suffered a head injury in their second matchup on Oct. 22 when Montreal captain Brian Gionta collided with him. He was never the same and will sit out the finale after suffering another head injury -- something that will keep Canadiens No. 1 Carey Price out as well. Both teams endured major changes during disappointing campaigns. Randy Cunneyworth replaced Jacques Martin behind the Montreal bench in December and general manager Pierre Gauthier was fired last week. Toronto saw coach Ron Wilson replaced by Carlyle during a visit to Montreal in March. The coaching change didnt come with instant results and Carlyle has made it clear that hell be looking for much more out of his players next season. "Its important to me right now ... 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[url=http://www.wholesalenfljerseysonline.us/]jerseys from china . “That was one of the goals we wanted to create is when teams come into this building theres no more of this two points, kiss your relatives and go home,” said Randy Carlyle following a fifth straight victory at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night. Cheap NFL Jerseys . The Saskatchewan Roughriders running back is not only leading the league in rushing with 1,149 yards, hes also on pace to become the most dominant single-season runner in league history.NEW YORK -- Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major League Soccer expansion team in New York that will start play in 2015. The team, the 20th in a league that has doubled in size in two decades, will be called New York City Football Club. It has less than two years to find a temporary home while also focusing on where it wants to build a permanent stadium. "Its a powerhouse combination," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after Tuesdays announcement. Manchester City, owned by Sheik Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, will be the controlling owner. The Yankees were approached about investing last week and will have an interest of 20 per cent to 25 per cent, a person familiar with the deal said, speaking on condition of anonymity because that detail wasnt announced. The expansion fee for the new team is $100 million. It will compete for attention and dollars with 10 other professional big league clubs in the New York market. "Theyll be running all the soccer. We know our way around New York, how to get things done," said Yankees President Randy Levine, who will be the teams lead person in the launch. While the Yankees have won a record 27 World Series titles, Manchester City is more akin to the crosstown Mets. It has just three league championships in England compared with rival Manchester Uniteds 20. Four years ago, after City was bought by Sheik Mansours company, United manager Alex Ferguson derisively called City a "noisy neighbour." MLS has been negotiating with New York City to build a stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, near the home of the Mets. The Mets had explored owning an MLS team before financial turmoil caused by the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. "Flushing is still the preferred site," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said. However, some community groups have opposed using city parkland. The new owners will consider other sites. "We need a community that supports us. We need a family thats going to embrace us," Manchester City Chief Executive Officer Ferran Soriano said. "So were going to continue this discussion. But the first thing we want to do is to listen, listen to the community, listen to everybody." Holly Leicht, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, said the Yankees involvement "opens the door for the possibility there might be a serious discussion about relocating where the stadium will go." For a soccer stadium to be built at Flushing Meadows, NYC FC would have to reach an agreement with the Mets to use Citi Fields parking lots. The Mets declined comment on the Yankees deal. "It seems to make sense with the Yankees involved that the doorstep of Citi Field would be less enticing perhaps than before," Leicht said. New Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009, was built on the site of Macombs Dam Park. That parkland was replaced, but not fully until Heritage Field opened last year on the site of the old ballpark. "While the parks that were built are lovely, theres still a lot of remaining anger among a lot of parks advocates about how that whole process went down," Leicht said. Bloomberg, in the final year of his term, has advocated the Queens site. wholesale jerseys. "Flushing Meadows Park is the right place to put it," he said. "Its at the end of the park that doesnt get as much use, and we could get aid for fixing up and helping up the part of the park that everybody does use." NYC FC will start play at an interim venue. New Yankee Stadium hosted its first two soccer matches last summer and is the site of an exhibition Saturday between Manchester City and Chelsea. The original Yankee Stadium was the home of the North American Soccer Leagues New York Cosmos in 1976. "Yankee Stadium is an option, as are many places," Levine said. The new team is intended to spark a rivalry with the New York Red Bulls, an original MLS team from 1996 that in 2010 moved into a 25,000-seat, $200 million stadium in in Harrison, N.J. "The Red Bulls now will have a rival here in the market providing them with that derby-like competition that is such a driver of what makes football so successful around the world," Garber said. There is a chance NYC FC can serve as a farm team for Manchester City, which in 2012 won its first Premier League title since 1968. Young players unable to break into the Man City squad could be loaned to the MLS team. "I think naturally it will happen, that some Manchester players will end up playing in New York," Soriano said. "But the objective and the focus will be to try to find the right players for the New York team. The New York team is a team on its own." The Yankees have long explored soccer deals. A partnership with Manchester United was announced in 2001, but that turned into a now-expired licensing and broadcasting agreement in which the clubs sold each others licensed goods and exchanged television programming. The Yankees YES Network has broadcast Arsenal games on a delayed basis since October 2010 -- the same month the parent company of the rival Boston Red Sox took control of Liverpool in the Premier League. Legends Hospitality, co-owned by the Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Checketts Partners Investment Fund, will run hospitality and catering at Manchester Citys Etihad Stadium next season under a partnership with Jamie Olivers Fabulous Feasts that was announced in January. Legends already has started work on premium seat sales. Levine downplayed his verbal sparring with Garber four years ago, which followed the MLS commissioners comments about empty premium seats at the new New York baseball stadiums. Levine said then "if he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously." "Don and I are old friends," Levine said Tuesday. "Whats a little fun between friends?" With the decision completed on team No. 20, MLS can turn attention to No. 21. Former Los Angeles Galaxy star David Beckham, retiring as a player this weekend, has an option to buy an MLS expansion team at below cost. Miami appears to be a possible market for Beckham, and groups would like to bring the league to Atlanta and Orlando, Fla. "Its just premature," Garber said. "Clearly weve got to finalize a long-term expansion plan for the league." ' ' '