Avalanche vs. Maple Leafs - Oct. 10th, 7:00pm - SN

[CarltonTheBear]

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Colorado Avalanche 3-1-0, 6 points​	vs.​	Toronto Maple Leafs 2-2-1, 5 points​

Projected Line-ups​

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas Landeskog-Nelson-Kadri Schwartz-Svechkov-Hughes Kelly-Roy-L’Heureux Toews-Makar Kulak-Malinski Manson-Burns Wedgewood​

Marchenko-Matthews-Roslovic Cowan-Paul-Nylander McKenna-Sissons-Groulx MacEwen-Blueger-Duhaime McCabe-Raddysh Rielly-Tanev OEL-Stecher Stolarz​

Scratches​

Sam Malinski​

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John Tavares Miles Wood Nick Blankenburg​

Injuries​

Logan O'Connor - Lower Body - Injured Reserve​

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John Tavares - Personal - Out Dakota Joshua - Abdomen - Injured Reserve Elvis Merzlikins - Shoulder - Injured Reserve Max Domi - Back - Injured Reserve​

Game Notes​

COL -Scott Wedgewood will likely start for the Avalanche -Colorado is unsurprisingly off to a hot start to the season. They lead the league so far in goals, averaging 5.75 per game

TOR -Anthony Stolarz will likely start for the Leafs -Tavares will miss this game as he's back in Toronto for the birth of his fourth child: Tucker Tavares -With JT out the coaching staff will get to experiment with the lines at even-strength and also with PP1. Nick Paul will be the major benefactor as he moves up to the 2C spot -Miles Wood was recalled by the Leafs on Friday. He did not get a practice with the team though so it's unknown if he'll be making his Leafs debut here -Also notable that Hiller adjusted his top-4 defence pairings at practice on Friday, with Raddysh lining up beside McCabe and Rielly with Tanev

Streams​

Sportsurge OnHockey NHL66​

 

[cw]

 

[cw]

McCabe - Raddysh
Best all around dman who skates well joins best offensive dman who is not the quickest

Rielly +7 - Tanev +8
Won a gold medal together in 2016 as Team Canada's top pair in the World Championships
Maybe I'm forgetting someone but this is the first time, in his 14th season with the Leafs, that I can recall Rielly being paired with a good quality, right handed defensive dman.
I've wanted to see this pairing since they got Tanev.
Hopefully, they get at least 5 games.

The tough part is they're breaking them in against Colorado

 

[Frank E]

Watching this team, I get 2025-2026 Blue Jays vibes.

 

[Andy07]

Watching this team, I get 2025-2026 Blue Jays vibes.

Wait, 2025 Jays or 2026 Jays? There's a big difference!

 

[Andy07]

I'm not sure why they are accomodating Roslovic at RW, at the expense of Marchenko playing his off side. Think Columbus would part with Knies? He'd slot into that LW position pretty nicely...

 

[cw]

McKenna (99th Percentile)-Sissons (84th Percentile)-Groulx (81st Percentile)
Those are their max NHL EDGE skating speed percentiles in the last 3 seasons.

I'm not sure if it is the fastest line the Leafs have presented recently but it has to be up there.

Might be fun

 

[herman]

I'm not sure why they are accomodating Roslovic at RW, at the expense of Marchenko playing his off side. Think Columbus would part with Knies? He'd slot into that LW position pretty nicely...

Marchenko played LW/C coming up in the Russian leagues (much more common on wider ice) and only switched to RW by the Columbus coaching staff.

Hiller also prefers wingers playing on their shooting side as it opens up options for coming off the boards to attack the middle lanes.

1:42 is when the question comes up

 

[cw]

I'm not sure why they are accomodating Roslovic at RW, at the expense of Marchenko playing his off side. Think Columbus would part with Knies? He'd slot into that LW position pretty nicely...

Some wingers have done well playing the off side
Kucherov
Ovechkin
Jagr
Rantanen
Recchi
Mogilny
St. Louis
Bure
Richard
Cournoyer
Andreychuk
... (there are many more ..)

One thing they generally like is the better shooting angle on goal

 

[herman]

We are going to see Roslovic or Matthews swinging down their strong side around behind the net on their forehands feeding a pass to the slot for a Marchenko one-timer to the mid-blocker side for goals all season long.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Marchenko played LW/C coming up in the Russian leagues (much more common on wider ice) and only switched to RW by the Columbus coaching staff.

Hiller also prefers wingers playing on their shooting side as it opens up options for coming off the boards to attack the middle lanes.

1:42 is when the question comes up

Worth mentioning too that even Columbus was going to have him start the season at left wing prior to the trade.

 

[L K]

McCabe - Raddysh
Best all around dman who skates well joins best offensive dman who is not the quickest

Rielly +7 - Tanev +8
Won a gold medal together in 2016 as Team Canada's top pair in the World Championships
Maybe I'm forgetting someone but this is the first time, in his 14th season with the Leafs, that I can recall Rielly being paired with a good quality, right handed defensive dman.
I've wanted to see this pairing since they got Tanev.
Hopefully, they get at least 5 games.

The tough part is they're breaking them in against Colorado

I'm pretty sure they tried them together two years ago before Tanev McCabe became that dominant pairing

 

[dappleganger]

Worth mentioning too that even Columbus was going to have him start the season at left wing prior to the trade.

Yeah, Marchenko prefers the off-side. There are advantages for wingers playing their off-side.

 

[Andy07]

Worth mentioning too that even Columbus was going to have him start the season at left wing prior to the trade.

Ok, I get it guys, I was wrong!

 

[Andy07]

Yeah, Marchenko prefers the off-side. There are advantages for wingers playing their off-side.

Some thrive on the off-wing, some don't, I just (errounesouly) thought that Marchenko had strictly been utilized on the right side