Toronto Maple Leafs @ Seattle Kraken
10:00 PM at Climate Pledge Arena
Watch on: ESPN+, HULU, TVAS, TSN4

The Leafs last game was away on February 4 against the Calgary Flames, which Toronto won by a score of 6-3 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 32-19-2 for a 0.623 Points %.

The Seattle Kraken last played at home on February 4 against the Detroit Red Wings. The Kraken lost by a score of 5-4 in shootout, and their current league record is 23-28-4 for a 0.455 Points %.

Them

The Kraken are well back from playoff contention, and even though the western conference has quite a few teams who could take a wild card spot, Seattle doesn't look like one of them. However, they aren't at the bottom of the pile (hard to do with San Jose around).

The Kraken are the fourth worst team in the NHL at five-on-five in Corsi and Expected Goals, worse than the Red Wings, who everyone is pretending are good lately. Their power play is very poor by Expected Goals and they score right on Expected, so it also looks bad.

If Joey Daccord is in net, they have good goaltending, otherwise it's terrible.

Lines

Last Game (2025-02-04) via Daily Faceoff

Jaden Schwartz - Matty Beniers - Kaapo Kakko
Eeli Tolvanen - Chandler Stephenson - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Jared McCann - Shane Wright - Andre Burakovsky
Tye Kartye - Mitchell Stephens - Brandon Tanev

Vince Dunn - Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak - Brandon Montour
Josh Mahura - Cale Fleury

Joey Daccord - starter
Ales Stezka

Us

Is Mitch Marner in or out? He is in per Craig Berube.

Anthony Stolarz is the starter, and there was no Matt Murray at skate, so that sounds like the roster move made to activate Stolarz. (They don't have to do this until closer to game time.)

Conor Timmins is not playing after taking a hit in the last game.

The power play with Marner back:

Lines

Morning Skate

Matthew Knies - Auston Matthews - Max Domi
William Nylander - John Tavares - Mitch Marner
Bobby McMann - Pontus Holmberg - Nicholas Robertson
Max Pacioretty - David Kämpf - Steven Lorentz

Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev
Morgan Rielly - Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Simon Benoit - Phil Myers

Anthony Stolarz - starter
Joe Woll

The Game

The Kraken are a team the Leafs should be able to outplay at five-on-five and actually generate good offence against outside the power play. They should do that.

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