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# Preseason Preview & GDT: Game 2 vs Ottawa
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/preseason-preview-gdt-game-2-vs-ottawa/
- Published: 2025-09-23T16:06:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-23T16:06:04.000Z
- Description: First home game.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: Game Coverage, Training Camp

### Ottawa Senators @ Toronto Maple Leafs  
07:00 PM at Scotiabank Arena  
Watch on: TSN4, TSN5

### 

The Leafs play their second preseason game tonight, the first at home. If you missed game 1, they were outshot pretty dramatically in a mismatch between the Leafs depth and about half of Ottawa's real roster but won the game anyway. 

Tonight's contest will feature most of the Leafs core (number withheld to avoid upsetting anyone). 

### Leafs Roster

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/2025/09/G1ibA22XcAATla5-1-.jpg)

With Nick Robertson and Easton Cowan on the playing roster again, they could have been played together, but the structure is a little different. Cowan has practiced some with the Tavares line as well.

[Probable lines are](https://x.com/dalter/status/1970491555032248567?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com): 

Matt Knies - Auston Matthews - Matias Maccelli  
Bobby McMann - John Tavares - William Nylander  
Dakota Joshua - Luke Haymes - Nick Robertson  
Steven Lorentz - Scott Laughton - Easton Cowan  

Ben Danford, who made a positive impression on everyone in his first game, returns with a veteran partner to play with.

Morgan Rielly - Brandon Carlo  
Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev  
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Ben Danford

With Joe Woll on a leave of absence from the team, the goaltending duo is Artur Akhtyamov, who also made a good impression in game 1, and Dennis Hildeby. Anthony Stolarz is not likely to play much in preseason, but we should expect him to play a full game in the final pair at a minimum. 

### Ottawa Roster

> Projected lines tonight in Toronto 💪[#GoSensGo](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoSensGo?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [pic.twitter.com/moQLulXJxH](https://t.co/moQLulXJxH?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Ottawa Senators (@Senators) [September 23, 2025](https://twitter.com/Senators/status/1970519081141805514?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Their depth vs the semi-real Leafs. See you at 7 pm!