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# Gameday: Playing the worst team in the league? Prepare for a tough game
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-game-preview-maple-leafs-lines-montreal-canadiens-lines-matthews-50-in-50/
- Published: 2022-04-09T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-09T20:00:00.000Z
- Description: Let’s admit it, the Leafs are bad when playing other bad teams.
- Author: Adam Selvig
- Tags: Game Coverage, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:43

### Toronto Maple Leafs vs Montréal Canadiens  
7:00PM - Scotiabank Arena  
CBC, Sportsnet, TVA Sports  
Other Guys: [Eyes on the Prize](https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2022/4/9/23017411/canadiens-maple-leafs-game-preview-start-time-tale-of-the-tape-and-how-to-watch-tv-listings?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The Toronto Maple Leafs have returned from their road trip, winning three of four games, and taking seven of eight points against some of the tougher teams in the league (and the Flyers) scoring between four and seven goals per game. Prepare for all that to end tonight.

That’s right, tonight’s opponent, the Montréal Canadiens, are in a race with the Arizona Coyotes for the bottom of the standings and that means the Leafs will do poorly. Let’s look at some of the results against the bottom of the league:

March 26th vs Canadiens: Loss 4-2  
March 13th vs Sabres: Loss 5-2  
March 10th vs Coyotes: Loss 5-4 (OT)  
March 2nd vs Sabres: Loss 5-1  
February 21st vs Canadiens: Loss 5-2

This does not inspire confidence.

**Them**

They’re bad. Recently not as bad, 2-3 with wins over the Lightning and Devils. Okay the Devils’ win isn’t impressive, but come on, Tampa. Figure it out. Anyway, the Habs are bad and no one cares about them.

**Lines**

Cole Caufield - Nick Suzuki - Rem Pitlick  
Mike Hoffman - Jake Evans - Josh Anderson  
Joel Armia - Christian Dvorak - Brendan Gallagher  
Michael Pezzetta - Ryan Poehling - Tyler Pitlick

Joel Edmundson - Alexander Romanov  
Jordan Harris - David Savard  
Corey Schueneman - Chris Wideman

Jake Allen  
Samuel Montembault

Injuries: Carey Price, Shea Weber, Jonathan Drouin, Jeff Petry — might be in.

No former Leafs because they’re too smart to play for the Habs.

I really have no idea who 90% of these guys are. Tank away Habs.

**Us**

It’s the Maple Leafs, they’re awesome.   
Auston Matthews is looking to score 50 in 50 tonight.   
The team is going to work to get him 70 goals this season.  
They’ll figure out how to beat the Canadiens, finally.  
We just need to believe.

**Lines**

Michael Bunting - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner  
Ilya Mikheyev - John Tavares - Alexander Kerfoot  
William Nylander - David Kämpf - Pierre Engvall  
Wayne Simmonds - Colin Blackwell - Jason Spezza

Morgan Rielly - Ilya Lyubushkin  
Jake Muzzin - TJ Brodie  
Mark Giordano - Justin Holl

Erik Källgren *(confirmed starter)*  
Jack Campbell

Injuries: Rasmus Sandin, Ondřej Kaše, Petr Mrázek

And that table of stuff I always promise you:

### Preview Stats

| Toronto                 | Team              | Tampa                        |
| ----------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------- |
| 3-3                     | Series            | 3-3                          |
| 23GF - 21GA - +2        | Goal Differential | 21GF - 23GA - -2             |
| 16% - 11th              | Power Play        | 22.6% - 7th                  |
| 77.4% - 10th            | Penalty Kill      | 84% - 6th                    |
| Auston Matthews - 4     | Most Goals        | Colton, Palat - 3            |
| Mitch Marner - 5        | Most Assists      | Nikita Kucherov - 6          |
| Auston Matthews - 8     | Most Points       | Nikita Kucherov - 8          |
| Ilya Lyubushkin - 18    | Most PM           | Jan Rutta - 17               |
| TJ Brodie - 22:44       | TOI Leader        | Victor Hedman - 25:45        |
| Jack Campbell - .893sv% | Starting Goalie   | Andrei Vasilevskiy - .885sv% |

They’re real bad. The Leafs *should* win, but who knows.

I do! They won’t.

Have a great time watching!