Canadiens @ Maple Leafs - Apr. 8th, 7:00pm - CBC, TSN 1050

[CarltonTheBear]

Montreal Canadiens 31-42-6, 68 points	@	Toronto Maple Leafs 46-21-11, 103 points
	Projected Lineups
Harvey—Pinard-Suzuki-Armia Gurianov-Drouin-Gallagher Pitlick-Evans-Hoffman Pezzetta-Tierney-Ylonen Matheson-Barron Edmundson-Wideman Schueneman-Kovacevic Montembeault		Bunting-Matthews-Jarnkrok Nylander-Tavares-Marner Kerfoot-O'Reilly-Acciari ZAR-Kampf-Lafferty McCabe-Brodie Giordano-Holl Rielly-Schenn Samsonov
	Scratches
Sean Farrel Jordan Harris Jake Allen		Wayne Simmonds Timothy Liljegren Erik Gustafsson Conor Timmins
	Injuries
•Jake Allen - Lower Body - Questionable •Jordan Harris - Lower Body - Questionable •Kirby Dach - Upper Body - Injured Reserve •Paul Byron - Hip - Injured Reserve •Juraj Slafkovsky - Lower Body - Injured Reserve •Alex Belzile - Leg - Injured Reserve •Sean Monahan - Groin - Injured Reserve •David Savard - Knee - Injured Reserve •Josh Anderson - Ankle - Injured Reserve •Kaiden Guhle - Ankle - Injured Reserve •Christian Dvorak - Knee - Injured Reserve •Arber Xhekaj - Shoulder - Injured Reserve •Cole Caufield - Shoulder - Injured Reserve •Carey Price - Knee - Injured Reserve		•Matt Murray - Undisclosed - Probable •Bobby McMann - Knee - Injured Reserve •Victor Mete - Lower Body - Injured Reserve •Nick Robertson - Shoulder - Injured Reserve •Jake Muzzin - Neck - Injured Reserve
	Game notes

MTL
•Samuel Montembeault (16-16-3, 3.26 GAA, .906 Sv%) will likely start for the Canadiens

TOR
•Ilya Samsonov (25-10-5, 2.40 GAA, .916 Sv%) will likely start for the Maple Leafs
•Woll was sent down to the Marlies on Friday night suggesting that Murray will likely be cleared to dress
•Projected lines are what the Leafs used in their last game, but don't be surprised to see a change or two of course
•This will be Toronto's final regular season home game this season, and of course on HNIC. Expect to see Wayne Simmonds, who was called up alongside the Woll move, dress for what could possibly be his final game in a Leafs uniform

	Streams
	NHL66 Sportsurge

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

Good, we need Murray ready to go. You may have noticed that he leads our internal voting in MotM/Wins — he has played well more often than not.

And I think Simmonds will see some action in the playoffs.

[princedpw]

I wish we could see this:

Bunting-Matthews-Jarnkrok
Kerfoot-Tavares-Marner
Nylander-O'Reilly-Acciari
ZAR-Kampf-Lafferty

[Guilt Trip]

Good, we need Murray ready to go. You may have noticed that he leads our internal voting in MotM/Wins — he has played well more often than not.

And I think Simmonds will see some action in the playoffs.

https://twitter.com/dalter/status/1644708137633472518
https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1644726530247913473

[L K]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

[Guilt Trip]

I wish we could see this:

Bunting-Matthews-Jarnkrok
Kerfoot-Tavares-Marner
Nylander-O'Reilly-Acciari
ZAR-Kampf-Lafferty

Also Willy is now on PP2..ROR takes his spot on PP1

https://twitter.com/jonassiegel/status/1644709759193427969
https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1644728450429722627

[Guilt Trip]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

[L K]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

I mean neither Tavares or Nylander have been good of late.  Having our top three centres on PP1 though makes it pointless to have a PP2 though unless they are double shifting Matthews...which with 4 games left seems like not a good use of energy

[Bill33]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

I wouldn't pull tavares off PP1 because his best skillset at this point is mid slot redirects and quick shots in close, with minimal skating required. He does it well. They've got tons of guys that can move the puck around the perimeter, tavares gets down low and adds options.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

I mean neither Tavares or Nylander have been good of late.

They haven't been good together for awhile.  I wonder if ROR will stay on the second line with Tavares and Willy drops to the 3rd line.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

I wouldn't pull tavares off PP1 because his best skillset at this point is mid slot redirects and quick shots in close, with minimal skating required. He does it well. They've got tons of guys that can move the puck around the perimeter, tavares gets down low and adds options.

Right on.

[Bill33]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

Because he's been terrible on the PP and needs a kick in the ass to get going again.

Maybe they're just looking to get O'Reilly some PP time to get his timing back, and give a few guys a lighter load. It may have nothing to do with sending a message. I mean, there's 4 games left in a career year for Nylander, he's been great... some rest might be way more helpful, but I am giving more credit to keefe than your more likely scenario.

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1644726530247913473

Kevin McGran pointed out the other day that with Woll up the Leafs wouldn't have enough cap space to sign Knies next week. So they could be using the EBUG option for tonight's game which would then allow them to bring back Woll for the remaining 3 games at a $0 cap hit.

[CarltonTheBear]

I get a Nylander is struggling but pulling him off PP1 for OReilly and keeping a Tavares on there makes no sense to me. 

I really wouldn't read too much into line-up decisions like that right now.

[Guilt Trip]

https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1644726530247913473

Kevin McGran pointed out the other day that with Woll up the Leafs wouldn't have enough cap space to sign Knies next week. So they could be using the EBUG option for tonight's game which would then allow them to bring back Woll for the remaining 3 games at a $0 cap hit.

And then they'd have enough money to sign Knies.