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The Maple Leafs are looking to avoid a season series sweep at the hands of Ottawa, turn around their recent dip in form, and keep the surging Senators outside of shouting distance in the Atlantic Division race tonight on HNIC+
In the Leafs‘ last game against the Senators, Travis Green hard-matched Shane Pinto’s line against Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner with more than satisfactory results from the Ottawa perspective; shot attempts were 11-7 and the score was 1-0 in those minutes in favour as the Senators, who won a 2-1 game. The Leafs have lost their two games to the Senators this season by 3-0 and 2-1 scores.
Combine it with the Leafs‘ recent struggles to score more than two against Florida and Auston Matthews’ dip in goal-scoring, and it makes for an appropriate time for the coaching staff to spread their top three forwards over separate lines in search of a spark while hopefully creating some additional matchup headaches for the opposition.
That’s exactly what Craig Berube will do tonight — at least to start — while also inserting Nick Robertson on the fourth line in place of David Kampf (Pontus Holmberg moves over to the middle):
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards
#23 Matthew Knies — #34 Auston Matthews — #11 Max Domi
#74 Bobby McMann — #91 John Tavares — #16 Mitch Marner
#19 Calle Jarnkrok — #24 Scott Laughton — #88 William Nylander
#18 Steven Lorentz — #29 Pontus Holmberg — #89 Nick Robertson
Defensemen
#22 Jake McCabe — #8 Chris Tanev
#44 Morgan Rielly — #25 Brandon Carlo
#2 Simon Benoit — #95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Goaltenders
Starter: #41 Anthony Stolarz
#60 Joseph Woll
Extras: David Kampf, Philippe Myers
Injured (LTIR): Jani Hakanpää, Max Pacioretty
Ottawa Senators Projected Lines
Forwards
#7 Brady Tkachuk — #18 Tim Stutzle — #28 Claude Giroux
#57 David Perron — #24 Dylan Cozens — #19 Drake Batherson
#71 Ridly Greig — #12 Shane Pinto — #22 Michael Amadio
#15 Matthew Highmore — #81 Adam Gaudette — #20 Fabian Zetterlund
Defensemen
#85 Jake Sanderson — #2 Artem Zub
#72 Thomas Chabot — #23 Travis Hamonic
#43 Tyler Kleven — #33 Nikolas Matinpalo
Goaltenders
Starter: #35 Linus Ullmark
#31 Anton Forsberg
Injured: Nick Cousins, Nick Jensen
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