Panthers vs. Maple Leafs - Mar. 23rd, 7:00pm - SN, TSN 1050

[CarltonTheBear]

Florida Panthers 36-28-7, 79 points	vs.	Toronto Maple Leafs 42-19-9, 93 points
	Projected Lineups
Lundell-Barkov-Reinhart Verhaeghe-Luostarinen-Tkachuk Lomberg-E.Staal-Duclair Cousins-White-Smith Forsling-Ekblad M.Staal-Montour Mahura-Gudas Bobrovsky		Jarnkrok-Matthews-Marner Bunting-Tavares-Nylander Kerfoot-Acciari-Lafferty ZAR-Kampf-Simmonds McCabe-Brodie Rielly-Schenn Giordano-Holl Murray
	Scratches
Anthony Duclair Sam Bennett Casey Fitzgerald		Erik Gustafsson Timothy Liljegren Conor Timmins Ilya Samsonov
	Injuries
•Sam Bennett - Undisclosed - Questionable •Anthony Duclair - Illness - Questionable •Patric Hornqvist - Concussion - Injured Reserve •Spencer Knight - Personal - Out		•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

FLA
•Sergei Bobrovsky (24-17-3, 2.98 GAA, .904 Sv%) will likely start for the Panthers
•Florida is in a very tight race for one the two wild card positions in the East. They sit 3 points behind the Islanders (who have a game in hand) and 1 point behind the Penguins

TOR
•Matt Murray (13-7-2, 2.96 GAA, .905 Sv%) will likely start for the Maple Leafs

	Streams
	NHL66 Sportsurge

[herman]

https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2023/03/23/sheldon-keefe-on-the-maple-leafs-results-of-late/

Have you seen enough from John Tavares and William Nylander where you've seen enough progress to put them back together and know they will help themselves to get going?

Keefe: It is mainly Will. He is the driver of things. He is the transporter of the puck. He was skating the other day, and that is Will. I thought he had a good game.

Like a lot of other guys, they weren't able to make that next play or that next piece happen to get anything substantial happening offensively, but he was definitely skating through the neutral zone. He had the puck a lot. He got us to good spots.

That is what John requires of him. From that end, it was positive. I thought John had a good game, too. He spent a lot of time in the offensive zone, but again, there was nothing to really show for it. Defensively, he didn't give up much and was in the offensive end.

Between Will and John both having positive games, it is a good time to get them back together.

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/FlaPanthers/status/1638935584000360449

Panthers are winning (warm-ups) tonight.

[Bender]

On paper the Panthers really shouldn't be this bad.

[CarltonTheBear]

On paper the Panthers really shouldn't be this bad.

That defence is pretty, pretty bad. No playoff team should have a 36-year old Marc Staal playing top-4 minutes. Also paying $10mil for average goaltending isn't great.

[herman]

On paper the Panthers really shouldn't be this bad.

Did you not see the top of the paper where it lists the head coach?

[Bullfrog]

https://twitter.com/FlaPanthers/status/1638935584000360449

Panthers are winning (warm-ups) tonight.

100x times better than the Sharks' pride jerseys (no idea why people liked them).

[azzurri63]

Lilly sitting again. Holl in the lineup. Hope we get clobbered again. Had enough of Keefe and his favortism.

[herman]

100x times better than the Sharks' pride jerseys (no idea why people liked them).

What's not to like? the Sharks jersey was adorbs.

[Zee]

Lilly sitting again. Holl in the lineup. Hope we get clobbered again. Had enough of Keefe and his favortism.

Why would a fan of the team root for them to lose (other than an out and out tank year with a generational player like Bedard ready to go)?

[Bullfrog]

100x times better than the Sharks' pride jerseys (no idea why people liked them).

What's not to like? the Sharks jersey was adorbs.

Maybe that's my problem: being adorbs. I think the giant heart ruined it.

[Guilt Trip]

Lilly sitting again. Holl in the lineup. Hope we get clobbered again. Had enough of Keefe and his favortism.

Why would a fan of the team root for them to lose (other than an out and out tank year with a generational player like Bedard ready to go)?

Because their hatred for a player and seeing them do bad outweighs the team doing well. It makes zero sense but look who wrote it. I don't like certain players in certain positions but I hope they all have great games that lead to team success.

And in answer to why Holl is on over Liljegren....because he's been better then him lately.

[Bender]

Lilly sitting again. Holl in the lineup. Hope we get clobbered again. Had enough of Keefe and his favortism.

Why would a fan of the team root for them to lose (other than an out and out tank year with a generational player like Bedard ready to go)?

Because their hatred for a player and seeing them do bad outweighs the team doing well. It makes zero sense but look who wrote it. I don't like certain players in certain positions but I hope they all have great games that lead to team success.

And in answer to why Holl is on over Liljegren....because he's been better then him lately.

My question is why hasn't everyone muted him already? I'd highly prefer to ignore him without the quotes bringing his asinine posts up over and over.

[cw]

https://twitter.com/dalter/status/1638599074755510274

[Guilt Trip]

Lilly sitting again. Holl in the lineup. Hope we get clobbered again. Had enough of Keefe and his favortism.

Why would a fan of the team root for them to lose (other than an out and out tank year with a generational player like Bedard ready to go)?

Because their hatred for a player and seeing them do bad outweighs the team doing well. It makes zero sense but look who wrote it. I don't like certain players in certain positions but I hope they all have great games that lead to team success.

And in answer to why Holl is on over Liljegren....because he's been better then him lately.

My question is why hasn't everyone muted him already? I'd highly prefer to ignore him without the quotes bringing his asinine posts up over and over.

I have no clue. Suckers for punishment maybe? I'm so done with the doom and gloomers.