Tampa Bay Lightning @ Toronto Maple Leafs
07:30 PM at Scotiabank Arena
Watch on: NHLN, Prime, TVAS, FDSNSUN

The Leafs last game was away on January 18 against the Montréal Canadiens, which Toronto won by a score of 7-3 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 29-16-2 for a 0.638 Points %. Did I mention it was 7-3?

The Tampa Bay Lightning last played at home on January 18 against the Detroit Red Wings. The Lightning won by a score of 5-1 in regulation, and their current league record is 25-16-3 for a 0.602 Points %.

Them

With some games in hand vs the rest of the Atlantic, Tampa is farther ahead of Ottawa than they seem, and are very close to Florida's Points %. This division is very up for grabs still.

The Lightning are doing well, getting good Corsi, better Expected goals. They have good goaltending and their Shooting % is very good. Their power play is good enough, and they outscore Expected goals enough to make it look very good.

They've had a little bit of bad luck in the timing of goals for and against. They have scored a lot when they didn't need it, and had a lot of saves that weren't pivotal. They are a little un-clutch, and if you think clutch is a real thing then you can decide why that is.

Lines

Last Game (2025-01-18) via Daily Faceoff and subject to change

Jake Guentzel - Brayden Point - Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel - Anthony Cirelli - Nick Paul
Zemgus Girgensons - Conor Geekie - Michael Eyssimont
Mitchell Chaffee - Luke Glendening - Cam Atkinson

Victor Hedman - Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh - Maxwell Crozier
Emil Lilleberg - Nick Perbix

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Us

Calle Järnkrok and Anthony Stolarz skated before the rest of the team this morning. But Max Pacioretty was absent. Fraser Minten draws into the main lineup for the first time since John Tavares was injured. Pacioretty is day-to-day.

The defence pairs are completely rearranged as are


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Leafs PP units at skate

Marner, Matthews, Nylander, McMann, Knies

Rielly, Ekman-Larsson, Domi, Robertson, Minten

Lines

Morning skate today

Matthew Knies - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Bobby McMann - Pontus Holmberg - William Nylander
Max Domi - Fraser Minten - Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz - David Kämpf - Connor Dewar

Morgan Rielly - Jake McCabe
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit - Conor Timmins

Joe Woll - starter
Dennis Hildeby

The Game

This should be a much tougher test than the Canadiens, but then almost anyone is.