Maple Leafs @ Penguins - Nov. 26th, 7:00pm - CBC, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

Toronto Maple Leafs 12-5-5, 29 points	@	Pittsburgh Penguins 11-7-3, 25 points
	Projected Lineups
Bunting-Matthews-Nylander Jarnkrok-Tavares-Marner Kerfoot-Holmberg-Simmonds ZAR-Kampf-Engvall Giordano-Holl Sandin-Liljegren Mete-Hollowell Kallgren		Guentzel-Crosby-Rakell Zucker-Malkin-Rust McGinn-Carter-Heinen Poehling-Blueger-Archibald Pettersson-Letang Joseph-Petry Dumoulin-Rutta DeSmith
	Scratches
Nicholas Robertson Denis Malgin Conor Timmins		Kasperi Kapanen Chad Ruhwedel
	Injuries
•Morgan Rielly - Knee - Injured Reserve •Jake Muzzin - Neck - Injured Reserve •TJ Brodie - Oblique - Injured Reserve •Jordie Benn - Upper Body - Injured Reserve •Ilya Samsonov - Knee - Injured Reserve
	Game notes

TOR
•Erik Kallgren (2-2-4, 2.87 GAA, .891 Sv%) will start for the Maple Leafs
•No confirmations, but don't be surprised if any or even all of Toronto's scratches on Friday find their way into the line-up on the 2nd half of this back to back

PIT
•Casey DeSmith (3-4-1, 2.88 GAA, .909 Sv%) will likely start for the Penguins
•Pittsburgh is also playing their 2nd game in 2 days. They're coming off a 4-1 victory over the Flyers, which was their 5th straight win

	Streams
	NHL66 Sportsurge

[Guilt Trip]

Tough one for sure. Hope the effort is there and we can pull another win out. Go Leafs Go

[RedLeaf]

Not sure why Murray played the weaker Wild team and Kallgren gets the pens , but hopefully that decision pays off. Go Leafs !

[Guilt Trip]

Not sure why Murray played the weaker Wild team and Kallgren gets the pens , but hopefully that decision pays off. Go Leafs !

That's the way it usually goes 99% of the time...The #1 plays the 1st game of a B2B.

[Bender]

Not super confident about this one considering they have a full squad...

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1596542751004557312

[RedLeaf]

Not sure why Murray played the weaker Wild team and Kallgren gets the pens , but hopefully that decision pays off. Go Leafs !

That's the way it usually goes 99% of the time...The #1 plays the 1st game of a B2B.

Right but it doesn't mean it's the correct approach. I guess the thinking is they should win at least the 1st of the back to backs this way, but it also gives the stronger opponent a better chance of winning.

[Frank E]

Not sure why Murray played the weaker Wild team and Kallgren gets the pens , but hopefully that decision pays off. Go Leafs !

That's the way it usually goes 99% of the time...The #1 plays the 1st game of a B2B.

Right but it doesn't mean it's the correct approach. I guess the thinking is they should win at least the 1st of the back to backs this way, but it also gives the stronger opponent a better chance of winning.

I remember reading around here a while back that the math adds up for this approach.  The idea is that you hope for a split on back to backs, so give yourself the best chance to win the first game.

[herman]

https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1596628935621898240
That's funny because I have felt the Leafs have been lacking in this department; they could be so much better at generating rush opportunities, but it would cost them their volume scoring chance suppression (especially with a short-staffed D-corps).

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

If Matthews has a big game, we win.  Otherwise, nope.

[lamajama]

Some very nice pre-game reflections on Borje.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

STREAKKKKKKKKKKKKK

OMG what a nice goal

Haha Sid is not happy

[Rob]

#16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[L K]

What the heck happened there and what a move by Marner to still get in all alone

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

What the heck happened there and what a move by Marner to still get in all alone

Not only was it the world's worst change, the instant replay wasn't kind to Petry.