The Toronto Maple Leafs are on the very edge of the country tonight, ready to play the Vancouver Canucks and win a game on the western Canada road trip.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS AT VANCOUVER CANUCKS
7:00PM EST / 4:00PM PST
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The Maple Leafs lost to the Calgary Flames on Thursday night, and no, the world did not end, some people just acted like it did.


Leafs start western road trip with a loss in Calgary


Despite winning their previous six games, this loss to Calgary was it. Will a loss to the Canucks cause just as much stress to Maple Leafs fans?

Vancouver is losing games all over the place while they try to rebuild themselves into a respectable team without doing a full rebuild. They’ve lost four of their last five games, they’re terrible, but hey, they made some great hires, so look at that not their record!

The Maple Leafs better beat these dorks,

Vancouver Canucks

The Leafs are 66-65-22-4 against Vancouver all time, with 533 goals for, and 519 against. It’s pretty even historically because they’ve both had long stretches of being terrible.

Lines

JT Miller - Bo Hovat - Brock Boeser
Vasily Podkolzin - Elias Pettersson - Nils Höglander
Tanner Pearson - Jason Dickinson - Conor Garland
Tyler Motte - Juho Lammikko - Alex Chiasson

Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Noah Juulson
Tyler Myers - Luke Schenn
Brad Hunt - Kyle Burroughs

Thatcher Demko
Jaroslav Halak

Former Leafs: Luke Schenn
Future Leafs: Luke Schenn

Missing Players: Brandon Sutter, Travis Hamonic, Tucker Poolman, Quinn Hughes, Matthew Highmore

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines

Michael Bunting - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Alexander Kerfoot - John Tavares - William Nylander
Ilya Mikheyev - David Kämpf - Ondřej Kaše
Pierre Engvall - Jason Spezza - Wayne Simmonds

Morgan Rielly - TJ Brodie
Jake Muzzin - Justin Holl
Rasmus Sandin - Timothy Liljegren

Petr Mrázek
Jack Campbell

All players are available!

Here’s a chart!

Preview Stats

TorontoTeamTampa
3-3Series 3-3
23GF - 21GA - +2Goal Differential21GF - 23GA - -2
16% - 11thPower Play22.6% - 7th
77.4% - 10thPenalty Kill84% - 6th
Auston Matthews - 4Most GoalsColton, Palat - 3
Mitch Marner - 5Most AssistsNikita Kucherov - 6
Auston Matthews - 8Most PointsNikita Kucherov - 8
Ilya Lyubushkin - 18Most PMJan Rutta - 17
TJ Brodie - 22:44TOI LeaderVictor Hedman - 25:45
Jack Campbell - .893sv%Starting GoalieAndrei Vasilevskiy - .885sv%

The best power play against the worst penalty kill? Yes please!

Milestones

  • If Auston Matthews scores a goal, he takes sole possession of 10th all time in Maple Leafs scoring, pushing Ted Kennedy back to 11th. Both are tied with 230
  • If Auston Matthews scores a hat trick he moves to 19th all time in Maple Leafs points
  • Mitch Marner needs two points to reach 400/

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Go Leafs Go!