Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa Senators
Time: 7:00PM
Location: The hockey arena between the Supercuts and the used Dodge dealership
Broadcast/Streaming: Sportsnet, CBC, TVA Sports, NHL Live
Opponent SBNation Site: Silver Seven Sens
Oh God these guys again, eh?
The yet to technically clinch a playoff spot Toronto Maple Leafs head to one of their many homes away from home for the game that should officially put them into the playoffs.
The Leafs have not clinched because the Montreal Canadiens are seven points behind the Leafs, and have four more games to play. So, if the Leafs lose all of their remaining games and the Habs win theirs the Leafs will miss the playoffs.
But that won’t happen.
Right?
Right?
Maple Leafs
Forward Lines
Zach Hyman - John Tavares - Mitch Marner
Andreas Johnsson - Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Patrick Marleau - Nazem Kadri - Kasperi Kapanen
Tyler Ennis - Frederik Gauthier - Connor Brown
Defence Pairings
Morgan Rielly - Ron Hainsey
Jake Muzzin - Nikita Zaitsev
Travis Dermot - Martin Marincin
Goaltenders
Garret Sparks
Frederik Andersen
The Maple Leafs were experimenting with their power play units at practice yesterday:
New looks for Leafs PP units at practice
— Mark Masters (@markhmasters) March 29, 2019
Rielly
Matthews-Johnsson-Nylander
Hyman
Muzzin
Tavares-Kadri-Marner
Marleau
Today's workout focused primarily on special teams
Ottawa Senators
aka “Who the hell are these guys?”
Forward Lines
Brady Tkachuk - Jean-Gabriel Pageau - Max Veronneau
Anthony Duclair - Chris Tierney - Mikkel Boedker
Rudolfs Balcers - Colin White - Bobby Ryan
Brian Gibbons - Oscar Lindberg - Magnus Paajarvi
Defence Pairings
Thomas Chabot - Dylan Demelo
Christian Wolanin - Cody Ceci
Mark Borowiecki - Christian Jaros
Goaltenders
Craig Anderson
Anders Nilsson
I found a photo from Ottawa practice that I would l would like to share with you:
— Respectful Memes (@RespectfulMemes) March 30, 2019
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% |
The last time these two teams met the Senators walked away with a 6-2 victory that ended a week of the Maple Leafs essentially playing with an empty net. The Senators took the energy from that win and....got beat down by everyone except the Buffalo Sabres, who they shut out.
The Maple Leafs seem to have found their game lately, beating the Sabres and Panthers, and losing in overtime to the Rangers and shootout to the Flyers. Yeah, two losses, but Alex Georgiev goalie’d the Leafs and the Flyers took the Leafs to seven shootout rounds.
Tonight should be a win for the Maple Leafs, but I don’t want to jinx them as I usually do in previews, so I hope that everyone enjoys the game and the most popular team in Ottawa wins the game.
