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# Preseason Preview and GDT: Game 1 vs the Senators
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/preseason-preview-and-gdt-game-1-vs-the-senators/
- Published: 2025-09-21T14:07:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-21T14:07:39.000Z
- Description: An afternoon jaunt to Ottawa.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: Game Coverage

### Toronto Maple Leafs @ Ottawa Senators  
03:00 PM at Canadian Tire Centre  
Watch on: SN1

### 

It's the first almost real game of the year. The Leafs take on the Senators. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/2025/09/G1X90d6WsAAGp2Y-1-.jpg)

Huh, interesting photo choice.

These are the rosters: 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/2025/09/G1YA6zbWsAAaJSi-1-.jpg)

Leafs lines from practice using these players have been: 

Pezzetta - Kämpf - Järnkrok  
Sim - Quillan - Lettieri  
Boyd - Haymes - ???  
Barbolini - Groulx - Tverberg

But Easton Cowan and Nick Robertson have to get in there, so at a guess, Ryan Tverberg comes out. 

The defence pairs that have practiced out of this group are: 

Rifai - Danford  
Thrun - Mermis

Which leaves Villeneuve and Myers to team up for the third pairing. 

The Sens listed their lines: 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/2025/09/G1X_TZ_WgAAOn0H-1-.jpg)

So yeah, here's my analysis: that's a little bit of a mismatch.