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# Round 2, Game 6 Preview: This is the must-win game
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/round-2-game-6-preview-this-is-the-must-win-game/
- Published: 2025-05-16T15:43:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-16T15:43:50.000Z
- Description: Backs against the wall, last chance saloon, win or go golfing, etc. etc.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: Game Coverage, Maple Leafs Playoffs

### Toronto Maple Leafs @ Florida Panthers  
08:00 PM at Amerant Bank Arena  
Watch on: TNT, truTV, MAX, CBC, SN, TVAS

### 

### Them

The Panthers have no reason to change anything as Evan Rodrigues is unlikely to play.

#### Lines

Last Game (2025-05-14) via [Daily Faceoff](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/florida-panthers/line-combinations/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Jesper Boqvist - Aleksander Barkov - Sam Reinhart  
Carter Verhaeghe - Sam Bennett - Matthew Tkachuk  
Eetu Luostarinen - Anton Lundell - Brad Marchand  
A.J. Greer - Tomas Nosek - Jonah Gadjovich

Gustav Forsling - Aaron Ekblad  
Niko Mikkola - Seth Jones  
Nate Schmidt - Dmitry Kulikov

Sergei Bobrovsky  
Vitek Vanecek

### Us

The Leafs had a full skate today and the change for the sake of change lines from game 5 are gone, and the previous arrangement is back. 

#### Lines

[Lines at morning skate.](https://x.com/markhmasters/status/1923401072875278384?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

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

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

Joe Woll  
Matt Murray

### The Game

This sort of game is actually very simple. Unlike all the playoff games that came before that were played by calculating risk and balancing effort for the every-other-day grind of it all, this game is the only game. Each moment is the only moment; each player, the only player; every battle, the only test; every shot, the only shot. There is no past or future; there is only now.