Toronto Maple Leafs @ Ottawa Senators
07:00 PM at Canadian Tire Centre
Watch on: TSN4, TSN5
With the second game in Ottawa, the roles should be reversed. The Leafs lineup will be light and the Senators will have more of their actual team on the ice.
The Leafs team will be made up of this roster, which includes only one extra defender:
Easton Cowan, Nikita Grebenkin, Matt Knies and Jacob Quillan all appear for their second game.
Lines
Knies - Kämpf - A. Nylander
McMann - Holmberg - Robertson
Cowan - Shaw - Grebenkin
Hirvonen - Quillan - Steeves
Benoit - Timmins
Mermis - Myers
Rifai - Mattinen
Kokkonen
Leafs power play units at morning skate
— Mark Masters (@markhmasters) September 24, 2024
PP1
Timmins, Robertson, Cowan, Holmberg, Knies
PP2
Mattinen, A. Nylander, Grebenkin, Steeves/Hirvonen, McMann
These guys are heading to Ottawa for tonight's pre-season game@TSN_Edge
Ottawa
The Sens are not giving the Leafs a serving of Linus Ullmark, rather they're going with Mads Søgaard and noted Leafs-killer Anton Forsberg. That appears to be the competition for backup for the Sens this year.
Lines
They are icing a team with two NHL lines.
Lines at #Sens practice:
— Claire Hanna (@clahanna) September 24, 2024
Tkachuk-Stützle-Giroux
Perron-Greig-Cousins
Reinhardt-Pilon-Hodgson
Highmore-Ostapchuk-Boucher
Sanderson-Hamonic
Roos-Jensen
Davies-JBD
Guenette
Forsberg
Sogaard
The famous Ridley Greig is here, as is the now famous Cole Reinhardt from game one.
The Game
The point of this game is all about the bubble players. If game 1 made it clear to everyone who hadn't got the memo that Max Pacioretty is not a bubble player and Nikita Grebenken is making a hard push to join the Leafs, this game reminds us that oh, yeah, Nick Robertson is still here. So is Bobby McMann. And look at the 1RW.
If you've never paid any attention to the Marlies, Logan Shaw is a veteran centre, and one of the team's best players. I can't help but picture Fraser Minten as the centre of that line though.
Go Leafs/Marlies Go!
