LIVE NHL Play By Play Commentary Tampa Bay Lightning @ Toronto Maple Leafs
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The Maple Leafs take on the Lightning in a big four-point game late in the regular season. Unlike the last two seasons, the Maple Leafs‘ first-round opponent is still completely up in the air, with only eight games remaining in the regular season. The Leafs could conceivably start at home as the #2 seed or finish as low as the first wild-card spot. Much is to be decided, but tonight’s result against the Lightning will help provide some clarity.
The Leafs could distance themselves from the Lightning and pretty much solely set their targets on the teams above them (eight points ahead of Tampa pretty much seals it), or they could make the rest of the regular season even more interesting with a regulation loss, reducing the gap between these two teams to just four with one more game left to play in the season series on Apr. 17. Beyond the implications in the standings, the Leafs and Lightning rivalry now has a fun and storied history, and it hasn’t disappointed with competitive, high-event games during the 2023-24 season (two Leafs overtime victories). It makes for plenty of intrigue tonight.
Additionally, the Leafs’ lineup will receive a big boost as Morgan Rielly returns to the fold with a chance to help out an ailing power-play unit and groove some more reps alongside presumed playoff partner Ilya Lyubushkin at five-on-five. The Leafs have been scoring the lights out without Rielly or Mitch Marner in this recent stretch, but a cursory look at the Leafs of recent playoffs past shows that even as the team’s offense slows down, Rielly is often in the middle of a lot of what they do produce at the most critical time of year. Getting him back with enough time to ramp up for the postseason is nothing but positive news.
In net, Joseph Woll will start tonight at a time when Ilya Samsonov is strengthening his grip for the #1 job for opening night of the postseason.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards
#59 Tyler Bertuzzi – #34 Auston Matthews – #11 Max Domi
#74 Bobby McMann – #91 John Tavares – #88 William Nylander
#23 Matthew Knies – #29 Pontus Holmberg – #89 Nick Robertson
#24 Connor Dewar – #64 David Kampf – #75 Ryan Reaves
Defensemen
#44 Morgan Rielly – #46 Ilya Lyubushkin
#78 T.J Brodie – #22 Jake McCabe
#2 Simon Benoit – #25 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
Starter: #60 Joseph Woll
#35 Ilya Samsonov
Scratched: Mark Giordano, Marshall Rifai, Noah Gregor
Injured: Calle Jarnkrok, Mitch Marner, Timothy Liljegren, Joel Edmundson
Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines
Forwards
#10 Anthony Duclair – #21 Brayden Point – #86 Nikita Kucherov
#91 Steven Stamkos – #71 Anthony Cirelli – #38 Brandon Hagel
#23 Michael Eyssimont – #20 Nicholas Paul – #41 Mitchell Chaffee
#84 Tanner Jeannot – #11 Luke Glendening – #64 Tyler Motte
Defensemen
#77 Victor Hedman – #43 Darren Raddysh
#7 Haydn Fleury – #81 Erik Cernak
#78 Emil Martinsen-Lilleberg – #24 Matt Dumba
Goaltenders
Starter: #88 Andrei Vasilevskiy
#90 Matt Tomkins
Injured/Out: Conor Sheary, Austin Watson, Nick Perbix, Calvin De Haan, Mikhail Sergachev, Jonas Johansson
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