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The Maple Leafs are looking for a similar result but a better 60-minute process in the rematch against the Flyers tonight in Philadelphia
It wouldn’t make much sense to have Ryan Reaves on the NHL roster — if you’re going to have Ryan Reaves on the NHL roster — and not insert him for a game following the Jake McCabe-Garnet Hathaway incident Sunday’s 3-2 overtime win for the Leafs. It means the fourth line, which was trending in a positive direction, will be broken up tonight, and someone needs to sit up front.
It turns out Nick Robertson will be scratched after he played just eight minutes and change in Sunday’s win. Steven Lorentz will move up Robertson’s place at 3RW, and Bobby McMann and Max Pacioretty will switch wings on the left side.
The second line of Pacioretty – Tavares – Nylander was not showing much life in the two games since Auston Matthews’ return, so the result is that all lines but the top line that’s produced four five-on-five goals in the last two games — Knies-Matthews-Marner — will be tweaked ahead of this Leafs vs. Flyers rematch. McMann will look to bring some speed and an offensive spark to the Tavares-Nylander line.
On the backend, with Jake McCabe (IR) out until at least January 12 with an apparent head injury, the Leafs will keep Rielly-Myers together, reunite the familiar Benoit-Timmins pairing, and pair off OEL-Tanev. Anthony Petrielli made a good argument this morning for a different approach (Rielly-Tanev / OEL-Myers), but the silver lining of McCabe’s unfortunate absence, regardless of the pairing configuration, is that the Leafs will have three lefties and three righties in the lineup on defense, with OEL returning to his strong side.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards
#23 Matthew Knies — #34 Auston Matthews — #16 Mitch Marner
#74 Bobby McMann — #91 John Tavares — #88 William Nylander
#67 Max Pacioretty — #11 Max Domi — #18 Steven Lorentz
#24 Connor Dewar — #64 David Kampf — #75 Ryan Reaves
Defensemen
#95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson — #8 Chris Tanev
#44 Morgan Rielly — #51 Philippe Myers
#2 Simon Benoit — #25 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
Starter: #60 Joseph Woll
#35 Dennis Hildeby
Extras: Nick Robertson, Pontus Holmberg
Injured (IR): Jake McCabe, Anthony Stolarz
Injured (LTIR): Calle Jarnkrok, Jani Hakanpää
Philadelphia Flyers Projected Lines
Forwards
#74 Owen Tippett — #25 Ryan Poehling — #11 Travis Konecny
#21 Scott Laughton — #48 Morgan Frost — #39 Matvei Michkov
#71 Tyson Foerster — #27 Noah Cates — #10 Bobby Brink
#86 Joel Farabee — #14 Sean Couturier — #19 Garnet Hathaway
Defensemen
#8 Cam York — #6 Travis Sanheim
#5 Egor Zamula — #55 Rasmus Ristolainen
#24 Nick Seeler — #9 Jamie Drysdale
Goaltenders
Starter: #82 Ivan Fedotov
#35 Aleksei Kolosov
Injured: Samuel Ersson
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