Boston Bruins @ Toronto Maple Leafs
07:00 PM at Scotiabank Arena
Watch on: TSN4, NESN
The Leafs last game was away on November 3 against the Minnesota Wild, which Toronto lost by a score of 2-1 in overtime. The Leafs have a record of 6-5-2 for a 0.538 Points %.
The Boston Bruins last played at home on November 3 against the Seattle Kraken. The Bruins won by a score of 2-0 in regulation, and their current league record is 6-6-1 for a 0.500 Points %.
Them
They are a simple team. They have a roster that can't produce quality offence. They are okay defensively. They have an above average starter and a very below average backup.
They just signed Tyler Johnson to a contract, and he's not actually even good at faceoffs anymore.
But they still have a game breaker in David Pastrnak who was benched in his last game.
Lines
Last Game (2024-11-03) via Daily Faceoff and subject to change.
Brad Marchand - Elias Lindholm - David Pastrnak
Pavel Zacha - Charlie Coyle - Justin Brazeau
Trent Frederic - Matthew Poitras - Morgan Geekie
John Beecher - Mark Kastelic - Cole Koepke
Nikita Zadorov - Charlie McAvoy
Hampus Lindholm - Brandon Carlo
Parker Wotherspoon - Andrew Peeke
Jeremy Swayman
Joonas Korpisalo
Us
At five-on-five, the Leafs are pretty close to playing at their true ability. They still aren't 100% on the offence, and the defence is what it is.
The power play was totally fixed though because they scored. (It's not, really.) I think the PK is very good and people keep lumping it in as part of special teams and that's weird and wrong.
Maple Leafs F Auston Matthews is not available for tonight’s game and is day-to-day (upper body).
— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) November 5, 2024
Well that's just great isn't it? Matthews played the first half of the OT in the last game, so this can't be anything too serious.
Leafs PP units at skate
— Mark Masters (@markhmasters) November 5, 2024
Rielly
Marner Tavares Nylander
Knies
Ekman-Larsson
Domi Robertson Pacioretty
McMann@TSN_Edge
Lines
Today's skate:
Matthew Knies - Max Domi - Mitch Marner
Max Pacioretty - John Tavares - William Nylander
Bobby McMann - Pontus Holmberg - Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz - David Kämpf - Ryan Reaves
Morgan Rielly - Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit - Conor Timmins
Anthony Stolarz - starter
Joe Woll
The Game
Just this one time, Leafs. Beat these guys like the proverbial rented mule.
