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# Game Preview: Leafs at Lightning
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-game-preview-maple-leafs-lines-tampa-bay-lightning-lines-how-to-watch-leafs-game-642d69c159591d29b7fb5147/
- Published: 2019-01-17T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-17T16:00:00.000Z
- Description: The Maple Leafs head south to face the top team in the league.
- Author: Adam Selvig
- Tags: Game Coverage, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 10:50

### Toronto Maple Leafs at Tampa Bay Lightning

### Time: 7:30PM

### Location: Amalie Arena

### Broadcast/Streaming: Sportsnet Ontario, TVA Sports, NHLtv, Fox Sports Sun

### Opponent SBNation Site: [**Raw Charge**](http://www.rawcharge.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Oh good God no.

In a week where Leafs fans are extra ornery, the last thing we need is to see a game against the team that is running away with the Presidents’ Trophy just over halfway through the season. The Lightning have six more wins than the next closest team, nine more points, almost 20 more goals for than the next closest team - and that team is the Calgary Flames for all of those things, which I didn’t see coming - and their goal differential is PLUS FIFTY-EIGHT. They are perfect in the shootout, 8-2 in their last ten, and have lost only four games at home.

This is going to be a fun night.

The Maple Leafs, on the other hand, are a good team but they haven’t reached that next level like the Lightning have. They’re in the top ten in the important NHL standings categories, but have suffered a bit lately with a lack of start to their games - it usually takes them a chunk of the first to really get going - and they’re making some defensive miscues that have reached a point of boos raining down from the rafters of the Scotiabank Arena. Now this is the default status of Leafs fans of the past decade, and even tough this team is the best we’ve seen in a long, long time, the pre-season hype was so high we expected to be the Lightning this year.

This feels like a lot of doom and gloom, but that’s just my mood. The last time these two teams met, the Maple Leafs outplayed the Lightning by a large margin and it was only the outstanding play of Andrei Vasilevsky that gave the Bolts the win.

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#### Related

[Recap: Vasilevskiy is a wizard, Leafs lose 4-1](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-game-recap-tampa-bay-lightning-andrei-vasilevskiy-kasperi-kapanen/)

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Hopefully tonight’s challenge gives the Maple Leafs the boost they need and gets them excited for the game. Let’s see another game against Tampa like the last one.

### Maple Leafs

#### Forward Lines

Andreas Johnsson - John Tavares - Mitch Marner  
Zach Hyman - Auston Matthews - William Nylander  
Patrick Marleau - Nazem Kadri - Kasperi Kapanen  
Par Lindholm - Frederik Gauthier - Connor Brown

**Defence Pairings**

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

#### Goaltenders

Frederik Andersen  
Garret Sparks

### Tampa Bay Lightning

#### Forward Lines

Ondrej Palat - Steven Stamkos - Yanni Gourde  
Tyler Johnson - Brayden Point - Nikita Kucherov  
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Mathieu Joseph  
J.T. Miller - Cedric Paquette - Ryan Callahan

#### Defence Pairings

Victor Hedman - Dan Girardi  
Ryan McDonagh - Erik Cernak  
Anton Stralman- Mikhail Sergachev

#### Goaltenders

Andrei Vasilevskiy  
Louis Domingue

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### Round one vs Boston Bruins

| Toronto                     | Team              | Boston                                          |
| --------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| 3-2                         | Record            | 2-3                                             |
| 14GF - 14GA                 | Goal Differential | 14GF - 14GA                                     |
| 27.3% - 5th                 | Power Play        | 35.7% - 2nd                                     |
| 64.3% - 15th                | Penalty Kill      | 72.7% - 12th                                    |
| Auston Matthews - 4         | Most Goals        | Bergeron, Krejci, Pastrnak, Marchand, Coyle - 2 |
| Morgan Rielly - 4           | Most Assists      | Brad Marchand - 4                               |
| Auston Matthews - 5         | Most Points       | Brad Marchand - 6                               |
| Nazem Kadri - 19            | Most PM           | Charlie McAvoy - 6                              |
| Morgan Rielly - 24:34/G     | TOI Leader        | Charlie McAvoy - 16                             |
| Frederik Andersen - .925sv% | Starting Goalie   | Tuukka Rask - .922sv%                           |

Okay. Everyone breathe. Everyone relax. Don’t look behind the Leafs in the standings. One game at a time.

Go Leafs Go