nuck
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Demko vs this years Sammy could get ugly. We have seen his A game a couple of times this year so maybe he is due. Its kind of feast or famine with him and usually famine since the Tampa series.
GDT: Leafs vs Nucks
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PromisedLand
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Top 20 players for EV strength production given "cap hit"why? because it freakin' matters!!! I don't care if McDavid and Drai are not on the list; not my team don't give a flying F before you try to spin it.
Marner has been dragging Matthews down and Keefe refuses to see this
BallardEra
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Canucks are frauds. Leafs will expose them tonight.
ACC1224
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Feels like a tipping point game for this team.
I think it’s going to get ugly after this one.
I think it’s going to get ugly after this one.
But the second and third line are producing well, so why break them up? Or are you suggesting that Marner should be 4th line?
PromisedLand
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three 11 AAV players should play on three different lines and running their own lines creating match-up problems for opposition.
As far as I am cocnerd its a "TEAM" game; if Marner is not playing he should be put on the 4th line. ACCOUNTABILITY should be a thing for a team that wants to achieve success.
LaPlante94
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Idk if I'd do it now but switching Jarnkrok and Marner might not be a bad idea if it ever came to breaking that 1st line up.
Hellcat
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he Toronto Maple Leafs recalled forward Bobby McMann from the AHL's Toronto Marlies, the team announced Saturday, while also announcing the return of defenceman John Klingberg to the lineup.
Head coach Sheldon Keefe confirmed that McMann would slot into the lineup in place of fourth-line winger Ryan Reaves, who has struggled so far in his first season with the Maple Leafs. His on-ice goal differential is -11, according to MoneyPuck.com, despite only having a team-last 12.2 per cent of a share of possible ice time. He has yet to pick up a point.
Klingberg has also had a difficult start in Toronto, since joining the club in the off-season, and did not play in Friday's win against Calgary. Simon Benoit will make way for Klingberg in the lineup.
In a corresponding move, the Maple Leafs loaned forward Pontus Holmberg back to the Marlies.
McMann, 27, made his NHL debut last season. He played in 10 games for the Maple Leafs, picking up one assist.
In six games with the Marlies this season, McMann has two goals and one assist.
You can watch the Maple Leafs take on the red-hot Vancouver Canucks on Hockey Night in Canada on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.
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Head coach Sheldon Keefe confirmed that McMann would slot into the lineup in place of fourth-line winger Ryan Reaves, who has struggled so far in his first season with the Maple Leafs. His on-ice goal differential is -11, according to MoneyPuck.com, despite only having a team-last 12.2 per cent of a share of possible ice time. He has yet to pick up a point.
Klingberg has also had a difficult start in Toronto, since joining the club in the off-season, and did not play in Friday's win against Calgary. Simon Benoit will make way for Klingberg in the lineup.
In a corresponding move, the Maple Leafs loaned forward Pontus Holmberg back to the Marlies.
McMann, 27, made his NHL debut last season. He played in 10 games for the Maple Leafs, picking up one assist.
In six games with the Marlies this season, McMann has two goals and one assist.
You can watch the Maple Leafs take on the red-hot Vancouver Canucks on Hockey Night in Canada on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.
Maple Leafs recall Bobby McMann to play in place of Ryan Reaves; Klingberg returns
The Toronto Maple Leafs recalled forward Bobby McMann from the AHL's Toronto Marlies, the team announced Saturday.
Hoping this is a trap game for the Canucks. They are due for a poor outing against a struggling team 
Darcy Tucker
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Never had the Vancouver Canucks in November as a statement game on my bingo card but here we are. A win tonight would be a huge confidence boost and it would take the Canucks down a peg. Need the good Samsonov to show up.
Must win game. My cousins from Vancouver are spending the weekend at my house. Absolute must win.
I’m glad they’re going with a Marlies call up to replace Reaves. That’s a good thing. But Steeves must be wondering what he needs to do on the Marlies to get the call up (13 points in 11 games for Steeves as opposed to 3 points in 6 games for McMann). I guess they see McMann as a better fit than Steeves for the 4th line? But I still think it’s a bit strange, McMann has been hampered with injuries to start this year.
Magic Man
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Baby steps with no Reaves and no Klingberg. One at a time adds interest to the game, they would be a guarantee to win tonight without both, but you leave one in and things get real interesting. Some savvy coaching from Keefe here. You don't want an easy 2 in November.
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Agreed, they basically are getting the shooting % of Matthews start of the season from a few key forwards while also getting like .940+ goaltending. There is a big correction incoming for them eventually.
Somehow I am doubtful about that
PromisedLand
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I watched a few of their games this year and I can confirm, they are not frauds, not frauds at all. Hughes has taken his game to the next level and is actually defending much better. Demko looks like he's in vezina form, they look like an actual team with chemistry. When the Horvat situation was going on you could tell their team was split, they all look unified out there. I think they're the real deal.
Petterson has been decent but Hughes, Demko, Boeser have been nuts. Obviously they destroyed some bad teams in San Jose and Edmonton but they look legit.
Magic Man
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Lafferty is a guy I wouldn't mind on the 4th line in Reavo's spot.
Strangle
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I agree, looking at this lineup the holes are obvious and don’t even seem that big
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I need this idea explained better to me in regard to ice time.
How would having matthews, Tavares and Marner all on separate lines work out for ice time?
Would it split evenly? Would Matthews get more ice time than Marner? Would that mean a burtuzzi or domi or kampf get more ice time than Marner or Nylander?
I don’t understand why we wouldn’t put the players we want to play the most together and give them the most ice time?
This idea sounds like something that would lower some players ice time that we want on the ice more and raise ice time for players we do not want on the ice as much
Makes sense .. Reaves was playing like dog sh*t and he did nothing in Beantown for da team
BallardEra
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I think they've had a soft schedule and won't end up the season as good as they currently are.
supermann_98
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Reaves was a -2 in about 4 minutes last game, enough is enough already. Big fan of McMann on the Marlies and he's gotta keep the same energy level every single shift as he does when he's really flying.
notdoneyet
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I would have taken gio out and left Benoit in
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