Islanders vs. Maple Leafs - Mar. 21st, 7:30pm - TSN4, TSN 1050

[CarltonTheBear]

New York Islanders 36-27-8, 80 points	vs.	Toronto Maple Leafs 42-18-9, 93 points
	Projected Lineups
Lee-Horvat-Holmstrom Engvall-Nelson-Palmieri Parise-Pageau-Fasching Martin-Cizikas-Clutterbuck Pelech-Mayfield Romanov-Pulock Bolduc-Dobson Sorokin		Jarnkrok-Matthews-Kerfoot Bunting-Tavares-Marner McMann-Lafferty-Nylander ZAR-Kampf-Acciari Giordano-Holl McCabe-Liljegren Rielly-Gustafsson Samsonov
	Scratches
Josh Bailey Ross Johnston Parker Wotherspoon Sebastian Aho		Wayne Simmonds T.J. Brodie Luke Schenn Conor Timmins Joseph Woll
	Injuries
•Sebastian Aho - Upper Body - Questionable •Josh Bailey - Illness - Questionable •Mathew Barzal - Lower Body - Injured Reserve •Oliver Wahlstrom - Lower Body - Injured Reserve		•Noel Acciari - Undisclosed - Probable •T.J. Brodie - Undisclosed - Questionable •Ryan O'Reilly - Finger - Injured Reserve •Victor Mete - Lower Body - Injured Reserve •Jake Muzzin - Neck - Injured Reserve •Nick Robertson - Shoulder - Injured Reserve
	Game notes

NYI
•Ilya Sorokin (25-19-6, 2.37 GAA, .925 Sv%) will likely start for the Islanders
•Engvall was pointless in his first 3 games with the Islanders but has 5 points in his last 4. Former Leafs gonna former Leaf
•Bo Horvat's time on the Island has been less than good. After putting up 31 goals and 54 points in 49 games with Vancouver befotr the trade he has just 5 goals and 9 points in 19 games with New York

TOR
•Ilya Samsonov (24-8-3, 2.35 GAA, .917 Sv%) will start for the Maple Leafs
•The Leafs practiced without Brodie on Monday as he's feeling the effects of a blocked shot from Saturday night. The status of the defence, and whether the Leafs got 11/7 or not, could depend on his status

	Streams
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[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

I thought a concern going into last year's playoffs was that the big boys were logging too many minutes down the stretch. 11/7 would seem to be repeating the same mistake, wouldn't it?  I know Marner's not going to play 29 minutes like he did the other night, but still, that was crazy.

[Zee]

Engvall is scoring a hattrick tonight isn't he?

[Guilt Trip]

Engvall is scoring a hattrick tonight isn't he?

No

[herman]

More likely to be a Nylander hat trick, if history is any predictor
https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1637871497443172354

I think it'll be a Lafferty statement game, if anything.

[CarltonTheBear]

More likely to be a Nylander hat trick, if history is any predictor

I'm playing someone in fantasy playoffs with Samsonov and Sorokin, so I'll be good with both getting one.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

Nylander's game fell off after they traded his friends.  Not a coincidence.  These people are people, after all.

[RedLeaf]

Nylander's game fell off after they traded his friends.  Not a coincidence.  These people are people, after all.

Just score goals Willy. Just score goals.

https://twitter.com/itsmitchmarney/status/1637961739294629888?s=20

[Bender]

Nylander's game fell off after they traded his friends.  Not a coincidence.  These people are people, after all.

Has he even played with Engvall and Sandin? They're friends but they're still professional athletes. They've dealt with trades before and they'll deal with them until they retire.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

Nylander's game fell off after they traded his friends.  Not a coincidence.  These people are people, after all.

Has he even played with Engvall and Sandin? They're friends but they're still professional athletes. They've dealt with trades before and they'll deal with them until they retire.

This is precisely my point.  Just because they are professional athletes who have to deal with this doesn't make them any less human if they have emotional ties to the guys who get shipped out.  It's a risk you run when you "shake up the room."

[herman]

Bunting mad

[herman]

Willy starting a good ruckus

[herman]

Mitch is Marnering tonight

[L K]

I wonder how many goals would get scored if teams weren't allowed to blatantly hold forechecker after they dump the puck in

[L K]

Bobby McPoint!