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# Maple Leafs @ Predators Game Chat: The Return of Auston
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-nashville-predators-game-chat-auston-matthews-returns/
- Published: 2018-03-22T23:29:58.000Z
- Updated: 2018-03-22T23:29:58.000Z
- Description: Matthews and Zaitsev return, will it be enough to topple the NHL’s best record on the road?
- Author: Brian Stewart
- Tags: Game Coverage, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:27

### [Toronto Maple Leafs](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/teams/toronto-maple-leafs?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) **(43-23-7) @** [**Nashville Predators**](https://www.ontheforecheck.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) **(48-14-10)**

### 8:00 pm ET

### Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

### [Our Leafs game preview is here.](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-game-preview-maple-leafs-lines-nashville-predators-lines-game-stats-stuff-things/)

Auston Matthews and Nikita Zaitsev return for the Leafs as they face the team with the best record in the NHL — the Nashville Predators. They have a Vezina calibre goalie, they have four #1 defenseman, and they’ve slowly built up an impressive group of forwards too. Could be a team the Leafs have to beat in the Cup Finals!

Here are the Leafs lines for those too lazy to click on the preview link (spoilers: may cause reader to sploosh uncontrollably):

Zach Hyman - Auston Matthews - William Nylander

Patrick Marleau - Nazem Kadri - Mitchell Marner

James van Riemsdyk - Tyler Bozak - Connor Brown

Andreas Johnsson - Tomas Plekanec - Kasperi Kapanen

Morgan Rielly - Ron Hainsey

Jake Gardiner - Nikita Zaitsev

Travis Dermott - Roman Polak

Freddie will get the start in net.

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The Marlies have also gotten Leafs’ prospect Fedor Gordeev, though it seems unlikely he’ll get into any games:

> Just to round everything up with the Marlins over the past couple weeks, these are the players confirmed with the team on ATO/PTO:  
>  
> Derian Plouffe  
> Josh Kestner  
> Evan Buitenhuis  
> Jesper Lindgren  
> Scott Pooley  
> Pierre Engvall  
> Brady Ferguson  
> Hunter Fejes  
> Fedor Gordeev
> 
> — Kyle Cushman (@Kyle\_Cush) [March 22, 2018](https://twitter.com/Kyle%5FCush/status/976895207366160387?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

**GO LEAFS GO!**