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# Monday's FTB: Marlies defeat Monsters
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/mondays-ftb-8/
- Published: 2025-12-15T12:25:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-15T12:25:32.000Z
- Description: No need for fire alarms, the Monster was defeated.
- Author: Species
- Tags: From The Branches

The Leafs continue with day two of their break, they will be back in action tomorrow against Chicago. There will likely be a practice today and we'll keep you in the loop if there's any interesting developments there in the comments.

The Marlies have had a busy calendar, with a game Friday night against the Rocket in Laval, which they lost, and a game Sunday evening in Toronto against the Cleveland Monsters, which they won 3-2\. Slava Peksa was in net for both games as the Marlies continue to run with goalies signed on try-out contracts as the backup while Artur Akhtyamov is up with the Maple Leafs and Ken Appleby is out with an injury.

> G Ken Appleby (lower body, week-to-week), F Reese Johnson (lower body, week-to-week), F Vinni Lettieri (illness, day-to-day), D Cade Webber (lower body, day-to-day) and D William Villeneuve (illness, week-to-week) will not dress for today’s game.
> 
> — Toronto Marlies (@TorontoMarlies) [December 14, 2025](https://twitter.com/TorontoMarlies/status/2000328124836511765?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Peksa has performed well given the circumstances and workload, this was his third start in five days. If something happened to Peksa, I'm not sure what they would do next. He certainly saved the game for the Marlies here; overhead view at the end of the clip shows it the best.

> Peks reaches back to pull the puck off the line 🚫 [pic.twitter.com/eu78QlmL8a](https://t.co/eu78QlmL8a?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Toronto Marlies (@TorontoMarlies) [December 15, 2025](https://twitter.com/TorontoMarlies/status/2000371342399741985?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The win was also good for the standings as the Monsters are behind the Marlies in the division, so this creates a little more space for them to hold on where they are.

### Other News

The inevitable happened. Hughes scoring in his first game after the big trade from the Canucks. It was against the Bruins too, on their one and only visit to Minnesota per season, and who doesn't like to see the Bruins getting clowned?

> HUGHES SCORES IN HIS DEBUT 😤🚨 [pic.twitter.com/6tmVmACZgs](https://t.co/6tmVmACZgs?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — B/R Open Ice (@BR\_OpenIce) [December 15, 2025](https://twitter.com/BR%5FOpenIce/status/2000371192213950657?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

[Sunday Overreactions: Wild are Cup contenders after Hughes tradeAfter trading for Quinn Hughes, the Minnesota Wild are in position to contend for the Stanley Cup. Michael Amato touches on that and more in this week’s edition of Sunday Overreactions.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Sportsnet.caMichael Amato![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/thumbnail/Wild.jpg)](https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/sunday-overreactions-wild-are-cup-contenders-after-hughes-trade/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Looks like some snow coming for this afternoon. Have a good morning.