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Coming off an unacceptable performance in Columbus, the Maple Leafs return home in search of a response effort against Craig Berube’s old team, the St. Louis Blues, who will be without their top scorer, Robert Thomas, due to injury.
As discussed in the build-up, the Blue Jackets game on Tuesday had all the markers of a classic Leafs loss: second half of a back-to-back with travel, coming off a big win over a good team, playing an opponent that is not exactly one of the league’s heavyweight contenders. Conventional Leafs fan wisdom marked it down as a trap game the team would inevitably find a way to lose, and the Leafs did little to disprove that notion with a 6-2 loss, its second regulation defeat to a bottom-five team from 2023-24.
After a few weeks of media narratives mostly centering around how different the Leafs look and feel under Craig Berube (for the better), Tuesday’s loss was a reminder that old habits often die hard, and the team still has a ways to go to instill the belief in the fan base that this year will be any different.
Now, the team turns its attention to rebounding against the Blues. In fairness, rebound efforts after duds like Tuesday’s loss have generally been a strength of the team in recent seasons, but the importance of a response tonight has just a little more emphasis on it, knowing this is Berube’s first meeting against his old squad.
The Leafs will welcome the return of goaltender Joseph Woll, who is set to make his season debut against his hometown team, his first time facing the Blues in his career. Anthony Stolarz has done more than enough in his five starts to crank up the heat on Woll in the competition for starts in the crease (.938 save percentage). The Leafs are facing a brutally tough schedule regarding back-to-backs this year (16), so a healthy — emphasis on healthy, in Woll’s case — competition in goal between two available goaltenders would be a major boost.
A minor lineup change is also coming up front, as Max Pacioretty is day-to-day after suffering a lower-body injury on Tuesday. As a result, David Kämpf will draw back into the lineup, but the team worked on special teams and did not take line rushes in the morning skate, so official line combinations will not be known until closer to puck drop.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines*
*official line combinations won’t be known until line rushes in warmup
Forwards
23 Matthew Knies — 34 Auston Matthews — 16 Mitch Marner
74 Bobby McMann — 11 Max Domi — 88 William Nylander
29 Pontus Holmberg /18 Steven Lorentz — 91 John Tavares — 89 Nick Robertson
18 Steven Lorentz/29 Pontus Holmberg — 64 David Kampf — 75 Ryan Reaves
Defensemen
44 Morgan Rielly — 8 Chris Tanev
95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson — 22 Jake McCabe
2 Simon Benoit — 25 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
60 Joseph Woll
41 Anthony Stolarz
Extras: Philippe Myers, Timothy Liljegren
Injured: Max Pacioretty
Injured (LTIR): Calle Jarnkrok, Jani Hakanpaa, Connor Dewar, Dakota Mermis
St. Louis Blues Projected Lines
Forwards
20 Brandon Saad — 10 Brayden Schenn — 63 Jake Neighbours
9 Alexandre Texier — 89 Pavel Buchnevich — 25 Jordan Kyrou
71 Mathieu Joseph — 81 Dylan Holloway — 42 Kasperi Kapanen
13 Alexey Toropchenko — 12 Radek Faksa — 70 Oskar Sundqvist
Defensemen
22 Ryan Suter — 55 Colton Parayko
6 Philip Broberg — 72 Justin Faulk
77 Pierre-Oliver Joseph — 48 Scott Perunovich
Goaltenders
50 Jordan Binnington
30 Joel Hofer
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