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# Game Preview: The Maple Leafs are thankful the Senators are bad
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-game-preview-maple-leafs-lines-ottawa-senators-lines-nhltv-free-game/
- Published: 2018-10-06T14:06:06.000Z
- Updated: 2018-10-06T14:06:06.000Z
- Author: Adam Selvig
- Tags: Game Coverage, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 10:50

### Ottawa Senators at Toronto Maple Leafs - Game #2

### Time: **7:00PM**

### Location: Scotiabank Arena

### Broadcast/Streaming: CBC, NHLtv - Free game

### Opponent SBNation Site: [**Silver Seven Sens**](https://www.silversevensens.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

It’s game number two for the Toronto Maple Leafs season, and since it’s been a two-day gap between games, we filled that time with panic and hand wringing over William Nylander’s absence and the lacklustre play we saw in game one.

My feelings on this are: I’m still not worried about Nylander and have no ill will towards either party in the situation, and meh, it’s one game.

Our opponents are the Ottawa Senators, the team who took the Chicago Blackhawks to overtime in their season opening game - which to a casual observer seems like quite the accomplishment, but we all know it means nothing this season. Oh no, you took the team that’s as deep as a kiddie pool and running their 2nd and 3rd string goalies to OT to start the year? How precious.

### Toronto Maple Leafs

#### Forward Lines

Zach Hyman - John Tavares - Mitchell Marner  
Patrick Marleau - Auston Matthews - Tyler Ennis  
Josh Leivo - Nazem Kadri - Connor Brown  
Andreas Johnsson - Par Lindholm - Kasperi Kapanen

Everything seems to be staying the same, no differences between games.

**Defence Pairings**

Morgan Rielly - Ron Hainsey  
Jake Gardiner - Nikita Zaitsev  
Travis Dermott - Igor Ozhiganov

There was one big announcement about the defenders today: Justin Holl will wear #3 this season.

#### Goaltenders

Frederik Andersen - starter  
Garret Sparks

Tomorrow night the Leafs are in Chicago and if we follow the goaltending pattern from last year Sparks should make his season debut. Hopefully it goes as well as his first Leafs debut.

### Ottawa Senators

#### Forward Lines

Ryan Dzingel - Matt Duchene - Bobby Ryan  
Zack Smith - Colin White - Mark Stone  
Alex Formenton - Chris Tierney - Mikkel Boedker  
Magnus Paajarvi - Max McCormick - Tom Pyatt

#### Defence Pairings

Thomas Chabot - Chris Wideman  
Mark Borowiecki - Cody Ceci  
Maxime Lajoie - Dylan Demelo

#### Goaltenders

Craig Anderson - starter  
Mike Condon

The Senators have also recalled Paul Carey from Belleville for this weekend.

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Okay, so I came into this season ready to laugh at the Canadiens, but I was shown that they are, in fact, not quite laughable yet.

But tonight, oh tonight is a tank of a different colour. Get ready for a Thanksgiving weekend laugher everybody.