Playoff implications were the story of the day as the Toronto Sceptres and Ottawa Charge faced off Saturday at Coca-Cola Coliseum. Ottawa needed a win to get in, while the Sceptres had clinched and were playing to try to capture first overall.

The Toronto Maple Leafs face the Ottawa Senators in Game 6 of the first round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

So the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Ottawa Senators. Good. This piece will serve as a bit of a retrospective on the series that had a lot of highs, some very low lows, but ultimately a successful end result.