GDT: Leafs @ Habs - HNIC - 7pm

[Burnie97]

Surprisingly he looks like the better option. Woll is still a little rusty it seems.

I wish this wasn't true but yeah... its Sammy right now.

Imagine we had a top rhd and a goalie. That would be something.

That'd be what I would do this summer if I was Tre.

Hope Holmberg gets back in. He made Kampf and the 4th line much better.

I thought he's been decent. Gregor really isn't doing anything anymore. Skates fast to nowhere.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Surprisingly he looks like the better option. Woll is still a little rusty it seems.

Hell need some starts still to get up to speed. Still 20 games left. I'd just continue to rotate the guys at this point.

Sammy is tracking to be the starter for game one if this keeps up though.

 

[HellasLEAF]

Hope Holmberg gets back in. He made Kampf and the 4th line much better.

He is too good to bench imo. Holmberg needs to play every game!!

 

[Pebble live]

He is too good to bench imo. Holmberg needs to play every game!!

It's Kampf who needs to sit. His no event hockey experiment should be over. That cap can be used much better somewhere else f***ing awful signing.

 

[Clark4Ever]

I think we'll see this on the back end for now:

Rielly-Lyubushkin
Brodie-McCabe
Edmundson-Liljegren

Benoit

 

[egd27]

Really hoping that the Leafs atone for this disappointing week by laying a real drubbing of the Habs tonight in their own barn.

 

[ACC1224]

Really hoping that the Leafs atone for this disappointing week by laying a real drubbing of the Habs tonight in their own barn.

That's my expectation.

 

[Roo]

Really hoping that the Leafs atone for this disappointing week by laying a real drubbing of the Habs tonight in their own barn.

Hope so, but I suspect it will be a close game

 

[Zybalto]

Hope so, but I suspect it will be a close game

That would be my guess too.

In their last 5 games, the Habs are 2-1-2 including taking the Lightning, Panthers and Preds to the gimmicks so I hope the Leafs are getting over the flu as the Habs arnt exactly playing bad hockey right now.

 

[Roo]

Of course. It’s hockey, there is no other sport with the same level of parity across teams. Any team can win any night.

 

[Smif]

Hard to get excited or even interested for a game like this when Montreal is as bad as they are.

You don't wanna see the new guys tn?

 

[Darcy Tucker]

You don't wanna see the new guys tn?

We're in Montreal on Saturday night after the deadline with new acquisitions and people are like this is mid .

 

[al secord]

Hopefully the Edmundson tribute doesn’t delay the game too much.

 

[Cleetus]

 

[Nineteen67]

We're in Montreal on Saturday night after the deadline with new acquisitions and people are like this is mid .

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That’s kind of a testament of how boring this team is to watch. Other than seeing how the new guys look in the Leafs kit, I suspect it’ll be another sleeper.

 

[crump]

Big game. Always love a Habs Leafs game, new players, just don’t get injured. (we always seem to pay a 1st rounder then have the rental go down with a debilitating injury, Foligno- leg or hip, O’Reilly- broken finger, Also Acciari had a neck injury down the stretch heading into the playoffs )

Last game until Thursday. Good little break for them mentally and physically get through this flu bug or whatever it is. Time to get new players up to speed with some practice time.

Maybe Marner and Benoit getting a game off due to illness or injury? Those practice lines look pretty set without subs in place of missing players.

Dewar get a shot at centre.

 

[Darcy Tucker]

Why is Marner absent? Flu symptoms?

 

[Evilhomer]

You don't wanna see the new guys tn?

I find it difficult to get too interested in games against bottom-feeders at this point in the season. This is usually the time of the season when I just want to fast-forward to the playoffs.

 

[MSZ]

That would be my guess too.

In their last 5 games, the Habs are 2-1-2 including taking the Lightning, Panthers and Preds to the gimmicks so I hope the Leafs are getting over the flu as the Habs arnt exactly playing bad hockey right now.

And Suzuki has been very hot of late.

 

[Cleetus]

Why is Marner absent? Flu symptoms?

might of had something to do with that fall he took in Boston, he got up really slow

 

[PromisedLand]

Man I was really digging that Benoit-McCabe pairing.

They had
Brodie McCabe
Rielly Schenn
Gio Liljeggren

Last season and Brodie-McCabe pairing wasn't that great IMO. Brodie was trash

Its like Keefe never learns; but I guess he won't scratch Brodie

so the option was scratch Benoit and break up that pairing or scratch Lily to keep that pairing

Oh welllll......................

 

[HellasLEAF]

Not worried about Woll. He will get steady again lots of time. Happy that Sammy has stepped up though and will definitely need him tonight.

 

[PromisedLand]

Bertuzzi-Matthews-Nylander
Domi-Tavares-Jarnkrok
Knies-Kampf-McMann
Holmberg-Dewar-Reaves

OK... when Marner gets back who is out and where does Marner slot in?

 

[PromisedLand]

might of had something to do with that fall he took in Boston, he got up really slow

Missed an open net, goes behind the net and takes a nothing shot turning and falling on his knee

of all the fancy things he tries to do; this was on another level. May be this is the universe telling to tone down the fancy and up the simple hockey in certain scenarios

 

[egd27]

One guy out so Keefe decides to go with 4 entirely new lines.