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# Round 1, Game 5 Preview: Leafs vs Senators
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/round-1-game-5-preview-leafs-vs-senators/
- Published: 2025-04-29T16:08:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-29T16:08:10.000Z
- Description: Home ice.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: Game Coverage, Maple Leafs Playoffs

### Ottawa Senators @ Toronto Maple Leafs  
07:00 PM at Scotiabank Arena  
Watch on: ESPN, CBC, SN, TVAS

### 

The Leafs lead 3-1 in this series, in case you just dropped in from Mars and didn't know. 

### Them

No meaningful changes to come, lines are from yesterday.

#### Lines

Graeme Nichols via [Daily Faceoff](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/ottawa-senators/line-combinations/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) from yesterday's practice

Brady Tkachuk - Tim Stützle - Claude Giroux  
David Perron - Dylan Cozens - Drake Batherson  
Ridly Greig - Shane Pinto - Michael Amadio  
Nick Cousins - Adam Gaudette - Fabian Zetterlund

Jake Sanderson - Artem Zub  
Thomas Chabot - Nick Jensen  
Tyler Kleven - Nikolas Matinpalo

Linus Ullmark  
Anton Forsberg

### Us

No changes to the lineup. Big changes in the pressbox: 

> The Maple Leafs have recalled the following players.  
>  
> F Alex Steeves  
> F Jacob Quillan  
> F Nicholas Abruzzese  
> F Reese Johnson  
> F Alex Nylander  
> F Roni Hirvonen  
>  
> D Matt Benning  
> D Cade Webber  
> D Topi Niemelä  
> D William Villeneuve  
> D Mikko Kokkonen  
> D Marshall Rifai  
>  
> G Matt Murray  
> G Dennis…
> 
> — Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) [April 29, 2025](https://twitter.com/LeafsPR/status/1917247574094057858?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

#### Lines

Mark Masters via [Daily Faceoff](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/toronto-maple-leafs/line-combinations/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) from yesterday's practice. 

Matthew Knies - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner  
Pontus Holmberg - John Tavares - William Nylander  
Bobby McMann - Max Domi - Max Pacioretty  
Steven Lorentz - Scott Laughton - Calle Järnkrok

Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev  
Morgan Rielly - Brandon Carlo  
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Simon Benoit

Anthony Stolarz  
Joe Woll

### The Game

No changes in the Leafs lineup is a show of strength, belief in the team, commitment to the idea that you "dance with the one that brung ya" and how serious teams behave. Anything else speaks of nerves, and Craig Berube was last nervous in 1985 when someone talked him into wearing a skinny leather tie. 

The Senators don't really have any options to make changes beyond tinkering with the arrangement of the forward lines. 

Just win it Leafs. In regulation this time, if you would.