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New Jersey Devils 20-16-2, 42 points | @ | Toronto Maple Leafs 17-15-6, 40 pts |
Projected Line-ups |
Meier-Hischer-Mercer Palat-Hughes-Bratt Gritsyuk-Glass-Brown Cotter-Glendening-Noesen Siegenthaler-Hamilton Hughes-Pesce Dillon-White Markstrom | McMann-Matthews-Domi Maccelli-Tavares-Knies Joshua-Roy-Robertson Lorentz-Laughton-Cowan Rielly-Myers McCabe-Tanev OEL-Stecher Woll |
Scratches |
Juho Lammikko Dennis Cholowski | | William Nylander Calle Jarnkrok Simon Benoit |
Injuries |
Simon Nemec - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Evgenii Dadonov - Wrist - Injured Reserve Zach MacEwen - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Johnathan Kovacevic - Knee - Injured Reserve | | William Nylander - Lower Body - Day to day Brandon Carlo - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Dakota Mermis - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Anthony Stolarz - Upper Body - Injured Reserve |
Game Notes |
| NJ -Jacob Markstrom will likely start for the Devils -New Jersey received an early Christmas present as Jack Hughes and Timo Meier returned to the line-up after extended absences. Their returns has not helped them on the scoreboard though as the Devils are 0-2-1 in those 3 games. Over the last 14 games they have just 4 wins and they've fallen just outside of an incredibly tight wild card race in the East at the moment |
| TOR -Joseph Woll will likely start for the Leafs -Toronto had a day off on Monday which means there's no update on the injured William Nylander |
Streams |