Carolina Hurricanes @ Toronto Maple Leafs
07:00 PM at Scotiabank Arena
Watch on: SN, CBC, NHLN, SN1, FDSNSO

The Leafs last game was away on February 8 against the Vancouver Canucks, which Toronto lost by a score of 2-1 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 33-20-2 for a 0.618 Points %.

The Carolina Hurricanes last played at home on February 8 against the Utah Hockey Club. The Hurricanes won by a score of 7-3 in regulation, and their current league record is 33-19-4 for a 0.625 Points %.

Them

The big scary red machine that always beats the Leafs has a record pretty similar. The last meeting was in January, and Toronto lost 6-3 with Joe Woll in net, having what is likely his worst game of the year.

Carolina is, as always, puck dominant to an extreme, with an extremely high pace of offence. They undercut all this a lot by shooting from the weeds. They give up the potential to score and play defence well enough, but mostly they just don't have to defend.

Lines

Walt Ruff via Daily Faceoff from yesterday's practice with assumptions about the 4-Nations players not present.

Mikko Rantanen - Sebastian Aho - Seth Jarvis
Taylor Hall - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Jackson Blake
Jordan Martinook - Jordan Staal - Andrei Svechnikov
Eric Robinson - Tyson Jost - Jack Roslovic

Jaccob Slavin - Brent Burns
Dmitry Orlov - Jalen Chatfield
Shayne Gostisbehere - Sean Walker

Pyotr Kochetkov
Frederik Andersen

Us

Assuming Steeves takes Dewar's place from yesterday, the lines below should be close to what we see at gametime.

Lines

Mark Masters via Daily Faceoff

Matthew Knies - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Bobby McMann - John Tavares - William Nylander
Max Domi - Pontus Holmberg - Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz - David Kämpf - Alex Steeves

Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev
Morgan Rielly - Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Simon Benoit - Conor Timmins

Anthony Stolarz - starter
Joe Woll

The Game

We might see a lot less ice time from those two than usual – also Jaccob Slavin. Otherwise, this is a shake the rust off game for both teams.

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