It may sound trivial – and it’s probably not worth prioritizing rest for some of the team’s most resilient players where possible in the final straight – but it’s worth noting that the Leafs are 27-8-2 at the Scotiabank Arena This season, the organization has not won a game 7 on the road since Nikolai Borschewski won the OT in Detroit in 1993 (a period that includes defeats by the Boston x3, the Flyers, the Devils and the Blackhawks). For the Senators, this figure is a toy that will stand up knowing the competition and the fact that there will be an invasion of Leafs fans occupying the rink at the Canadian Tire Center tonight. This will be the closest this season to a Spring playoff atmosphere for them. Ottawa will be left without their edible nail in the blue line, with Thomas Chabot probably out for the rest of the season due to a broken arm, which leaves its blue line looking thin and vulnerable to a deep Leafs attack. That said, the Senators have a month in April with a 5-3-0 win so far, including a 3-2 win over Boston on Thursday. The predicted key Anton Forsberg gave them a chance to fight in most of his starts and has maintained his really stable game in the second half of the season with a repulse rate of 0.923 and a record of victories (13-11-2) in 2022. At the other end of the rink, Erik Källgren will try to bounce after the defeat by Buffalo, which was by no means his fault, but he saw four goals pass him in 27 shots. The organization prioritizes resting for Campbell before the playoffs and may return to Källgren in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The other confirmed lineup change for the Maple Leafs is Justin Holl re-joining alongside TJ Brodie, a couple in which Holl played his best hockey this season (a common theme for Brodie partners throughout the year). . Jake Muzin will be sidelined for this weekend’s games due to an embarrassing injury unrelated to his concussion.
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Senate Chief Coach DJ Smith on the Leafs power play threat: They can set anyone on fire at any given night. Players out there can play games and shoot elves. They can go from different sides. They have many different options. This power play has been with the basic kids for a long time. They read what you are going to give them and make adjustments quickly. For us, we have to take two or less penalties. Smith on how close the Senate Big Four is to Drake Batherson, Tim Stutzle, Brady Tkachuk and Josh Norris in the stratosphere of the Leafs Big Four to Mitch Marner, John Tavares, Auston Matthews and William Nylander: It took a while for Matthews, Mitch and Willy to get to where they are now. They are much larger than these types. To get there, you have to be the best in the league. Matthews is the top scorer in the league. Mitch has the most points of anyone on a given day, or whatever. You do not want to be compared to anyone else. There are four of us, but let’s not forget Chabot and some other kids coming. I think they are as talented and capable as anyone. Now, how hard will we work? What will we do to push him to the next hump? Sure, the ingredients are there. They love to play hockey and love to be together. They are all best friends. It’s a good recipe at this point. Keefe in preparation for senators: They will go to work. They will compete. They have a high level of youthful skills. It’s not very different in terms of the ability that Buffalo brings – very similar in that sense. Many high-end draft options. A very dangerous power game. It’s Saturday night here in Ottawa. I’m sure it will be an active building. It will be a good game for our team and its team. I think the biggest thing we learned here is to talk less about the opponent or where they are in the standings and what can happen. Let’s focus more on our game. Keefe for the team’s power play is slightly reduced in the last three games: We think and talk about our power game lately. We did not like the last bit, but we came back, dug it up and spent some time with Spencer [Carbery]. How quickly we forget that before we came back and played these last three home ice games, we went to eight games where we were at 42%. We are not going to overreact with a hard little slip here. We just have to make sure we get back to that. Keefe in the balanced attack created by the presence of William Nylander in the third line: With a threat like Willy in the third line, it’s a little harder for teams that generally rely on their top four to play against your best players and win minutes for their second pair against kids lower in the lineup. It makes it a little harder. As a result, we have some favorable matches for Will. The other part is that when we split it up, the Tavares and Nylander series did not go very well. It changed the dynamics a bit. Since then we have liked the results. We liked the way the players responded and we liked how the team responded to a change of pace.
First Round Matchup Odds
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards # 58 Michael Bunting – # 34 Auston Matthews – # 16 Mitch Marner # 65 Ilya Mikheyev – # 91 John Tavares – # 15 Alex Kerfoot # 88 William Nylander – # 64 David Kampf – # 47 Pierre Engvall # 26 Nick Abruzzese * – # 11 Colin Blackwell * – # 19 Jason Spezza *
- fourth line to be confirmed later in the day Defensemen # 44 Morgan Rielly – # 46 Ilya Lyubushkin # 78 TJ Brodie – # 3 Justin Holl # 55 Mark Giordano – # 37 Timothy Liljegren Goalkeepers Original: # 50 Erik Källgren # 36 Jack Campbell Extras: Kyle Clifford, Wayne Simmonds, Kristians Rubins Injured: Jake MuzzinLTIR: Ondrej Kase, Rasmus Sandin, Petr Mrazek
Ottawa Senators Projected Lines
Forwards # 7 Brady Tkachuk – # 9 Josh Norris – # 28 Connor Brown # 10 Alex Formenton – # 18 Tim Stutzle – # 19 Drake Batherson # 71 Chris Tierney – # 36 Colin White – # 17 Adam Gaudette # 45 Parker Kelly – ## 27 Dylan Gambrell – # 16 Auston Watson Defensemen # 26 Erik Brannstrom – # 2 Artem Zub # 15 Michael Del Zotto – # 23 Travis Hamonic # 5 Nick Holden – # 22 Nikita Zaitsev Goalkeepers Key: # 31 Anton Forsberg # 32 Filip Gustavsson Injured: Thomas Chabot, Matt Muray, Shane Pinto, Mathieu Joseph, Tyler Ennis, Jake Sanderson
