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Devils @ Leafs - Oct. 21st, 7:00pm - TSN4

CarltonTheBear

CarltonTheBear

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New Jersey Devils
4-1-0, 8 pts​
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Toronto Maple Leafs
3-2-1, 7 pts​
Projected Line-ups​
Palat-Hughes-Bratt
Meier-Hischier-Mercer
Gritsyuk-Glass-Brown
Cotter-Glendening-Noesen

Hughes-Pesce
Siegenthaler-Hamilton
Dillon-Nemec

Allen​
Knies-Matthews-Domi
Maccelli-Tavares-Nylander
Joshua-Roy-McMann
Robertson-Lorentz-Jarnkrok

Rielly-Carlo
McCabe-Tanev
Benoit-OEL

Stolarz​
Scratches​
Dennis Cholowski
Brian Halonen​
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Easton Cowan
Sammy Blais
Philippe Myers​
Injuries​
Jacob Markstrom - Lower Body - Injured Reserve
Stefan Noesen - Groin - Injured Reserve
Evgenii Dadonov - Hand - Injured Reserve
Jonathan Kovacevic - Knee - Injured Reserve
Zack MacEwen - Upper Body - Injured Reserve​
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Scott Laughton - Lower Body - Injured Reserve
Joseph Woll - Personal - Out​
Game Notes​
NJ
-Jake Allen will start for the Devils
-New Jersey lost their first game of the season but have since won 4 straight games
TOR
-Anthony Stolarz will likely start for the Leafs
-Easton Cowan will likely be back in the press box for at least a game as the Leafs reconfigured their line-up to something that more closely resembles what they began training camp with
Streams​
 
I guess Blais is only coming in if Joshua needs a reset?

I want to trade out some surplus lefties for righties.
 
Cowan has done some things that show me he is capable of playing in the NHL right now. But the standard for a rookie shouldn't be capable of playing...it should be that he's forcing the issue. I don't think the team is appreciably better with Cowan in the lineup over Jarnkrok. I think Cowan is going to be a better player if he is getting regular minutes. Nylander spent two years bouncing back and forth between in the NHL and AHL. No offense to Cowan but he's not a better player than Nylander.
 
I think Cowan is getting a job shadowing experience with the team and will be going to the AHL in Nov to put into practice the laundry list of things to work on to win a permanent spot in the lineup.

Edit: This is not a good blanket approach to take with every prospect given the asset management hassles, but it could be very effective for someone like Cowan's personality and experience to date. Junior hockey, especially with the way the London Knights make it almost too easy compared to the OHL competition, probably feels like shinny compared to NHL game speed seen up close and personal.

I think Cowan will be going to the AHL knowing that he has the toolkit to hang with the big leagues, but needs to refine his mindset, tweak a few patterns, and build his body for the grind of a full regular season and long playoff drive.
 
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L K said:
Nylander spent two years bouncing back and forth between in the NHL and AHL.
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I think this gets cited frequently, but is a bit inaccurate, as Nylander was never yo-yoed.

Nylander started his D+1 season back with MODO. 21 games through the season (after WJC), the Leafs recalled him to Toronto and put him on the Marlies as a junior aged player because he was drafted from the SHL, not CHL. They kept him on the Marlies the following season (D+2) until the trade deadline as the team was artificially suppressing their standing to accumulate more assets and tank for Matthews/Laine (see Marner being sent to junior). Maybe he could've had a call up earlier but he was concussed out of the WJC. He was called up at the end of Feb 2016 alongside Kapanen, Brown, Hyman to finish off the tank job centering PA Parenteau and Zach Hyman.

That being said, Nylander's game didn't mature until he was in the NHL, following the rather disastrous second contract half season.
 
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