Flyers @ Leafs - Feb. 20th, 7:00pm - CBC, TSN 1050

[CarltonTheBear]

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25-21-11, 61 points | 20-27-9, 49 points 

Projected Lines

Schenn-Giroux-Simmonds Umberger-Cousins-Voracek Laughton-Raffl-Read VandeVelde-Bellemare-White MacDonald-Gostisbehere Schultz-Streit Medvedev-Gudas Mason ​

Grabner-Kadri-Holland Greening-Arcobello-Parenteau Matthias-Spaling-Winnik Clune-Froese-Boyes Rielly-Corrado Gardiner-Polak Marincin-Loov Bernier​

Scratches

Brandon Manning Sam Gagner ​

Matt Hunwick​

Line-up Notes

PHI
?Mason will likely start for the Flyers

TOR
?Bernier will start for the Leafs, first back-to-back starts in over a month
?No word on who replaces Komarov, guessing Leipsic gets called up but someone could return from injury too
?No update on Hunwick yet either

Injuries

?Jordan Weal - Upper Body - Injured Reserve ?Michael Del Zotto - Wrist - Injured Reserve ?Sean Couturier - Lower Body - Injured Reserve​

?Stephane Robidas - Old - Out indefinitely ?James van Riemsdyk - Foot - Injured Reserve ?Joffrey Lupul - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Shawn Matthias - Whiplash - Out indefinitely ?Tyler Bozak - Concussion - Injured Reserve ?Milan Michalek - Finger - Injured Reserve ?Jared Cowen - Hip - Injured Reserve ?Josh Leivo - Upper Body - Injured Reserve ?Matt Hunwick - Undisclosed - Questionable Saturday​

Stream Options

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http://onhockey.tv/
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[Omallley]

Grabner-Kadri-Boyes
Greening-Arcobello-Parenteau
Holland-Spaling-Winnik
Clune-Froese-Leipsic

Rielly-Corrado
Gardiner-Polak
Marincin-Loov

Bernier

Wow. I'd hate to see what the post trade deadline roster's going to look like.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Updated the lines. Seems like Matthias is good to go, and Hunwick appears out again. Holland takes Komarov's spot on the top line.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Also:

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris
Mike Babcock was at the Marlies game last night and says he saw them make more plays in four shifts than the #leafs have in a week.

 

[ZBBM]

It's quite possible that the Marlies are the better team right now.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Also:

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris
Mike Babcock was at the Marlies game last night and says he saw them make more plays in four shifts than the #leafs have in a week.

That's hilarious.

 

[dappleganger]

Poor Leafs.

 

[bustaheims]

It's quite possible that the Marlies are the better team right now.

It's quite probable.

 

[McGarnagle]

It's quite possible that the Marlies are the better team right now.

It's quite probable.

I think its doubtful, as bad as the leafs are. There's a few Marlies that could easily take spots from a few Leafs in the lineup, but as a whole, they're not going to beat veteran NHLers, even a team of mostly 3rd liners.

 

[Kin]

I think its doubtful, as bad as the leafs are. There's a few Marlies that could easily take spots from a few Leafs in the lineup, but as a whole, they're not going to beat veteran NHLers, even a team of mostly 3rd liners.

Maybe. But a lot of the guys in the Leafs lineup are really more AHLers than they are "veteran" NHLers.

 

[McGarnagle]

I think its doubtful, as bad as the leafs are. There's a few Marlies that could easily take spots from a few Leafs in the lineup, but as a whole, they're not going to beat veteran NHLers, even a team of mostly 3rd liners.

Maybe. But a lot of the guys in the Leafs lineup are really more AHLers than they are "veteran" NHLers.

True enough. but in a best of 7, I'd still put my money on Kadri/Reilly/Gardner/Polak/Holland/PAP/Winnik/Grabner more than offsetting the Marlies top players, even if the AHL callup depth is at worst a wash.

I guess we'll never know, anyway.

 

[rdowdall]

I think its doubtful, as bad as the leafs are. There's a few Marlies that could easily take spots from a few Leafs in the lineup, but as a whole, they're not going to beat veteran NHLers, even a team of mostly 3rd liners.

Maybe. But a lot of the guys in the Leafs lineup are really more AHLers than they are "veteran" NHLers.

True enough. but in a best of 7, I'd still put my money on Kadri/Reilly/Gardner/Polak/Holland/PAP/Winnik/Grabner more than offsetting the Marlies top players, even if the AHL callup depth is at worst a wash.

I guess we'll never know, anyway.

It's this sort of infighting that will eventually destroy the Leafs.

 

[ZBBM]

Never get tired of hearing the 48th Highlanders play "The Maple Leaf Forever."

 

[ZBBM]

Matthiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiassssssssss

 

[CarltonTheBear]

It's too bad Matthias got hurt, he was playing pretty well prior to that too. I don't know if this will be enough of a sample size to get teams too interested.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Speaking of Matthias, I wonder if Florida's a team that might give up a low pick to acquire him. He played on their team 2 years ago. It's a different coaching staff but same management and he's there's still some familiarity with players there. They've got some injuries right now so they're wing depth is being stretched pretty thin. That's a team that could think adding a depth bottom-6 player whose familiar with the group could be worthwhile. Boyes too, he was with them for the past 2 seasons. Finished 4th among forwards in scoring for them last season.

 

[Arn]

The response of the commentator to the Flyers goal just woke me up

 

[ZBBM]

Brilliant.

 

[Arn]

That second one is probably going to send me back to sleep

 

[CarltonTheBear]

It's been talked about before, but Johnson's doing a great job breaking down these goals against. Identifies Polak and Spaling as the main culprits when others would have dumped on Gardiner and Corrado.