Sabres @ Leafs - Mar. 2nd, 7:30pm - SN, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

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16-30-8, 40 points | 35-14-4, 74 points 

Projected Lines

Skinner-Thompson-Tuch Mittelstadt-Cozens-Okposo Asplund-Krebs-Olofsson Bjork-Eakin-Hayden Dahlin-Bryson Samuelsson-Fitzgerald Hagg-Pysyk Anderson ​

Bunting-Matthews-Marner Kerfoot-Tavares-Nylander Mikheyev-Kampf-Engvall Robertson-Spezza-Simmonds Rielly-Sandin Brodie-Holl Dermott-Lyubushkin Mrazek​

Scratches

Mark Jankowski ​

Kyle Clifford Ondrej Kase Timothy Liljegren​

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Game Notes

BUF
?Anderson (6-7-0, 3.01 GAA, .905 Sv%) will likely start for the Sabres
?The Sabres have lost 6 straight games and have dropped to 4th last in the league
?One of the only bright spots for the Sabres this season has been the play of their top line over the past couple of months. Alex Tuch, acquired in the Eichel trade, made his season and team debut on December 29th and has 22 points in 22 games. Centre Tage Thompson, acquired almost 4 years ago in the Ryan O'Reilly trade, is in the midst of a breakout season and has 22 points in his last 20 games. And lastly Jeff Skinner is showing signs of life with 11 goals and 20 points in his last 22 games

TOR
?Mrazek (9-4-0, 3.07 GAA, .895 Sv%) will start for the Leafs, this will be the first time he's started in consecutive games as a Leaf
?The Leafs continue to tinker with their defence with Muzzin out. Sandin looks like he'll shot a shot alongside Rielly on the top pair now, while Dermott comes in for Liljegren

Injuries

?Will Butcher - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Drake Caggiula - Upper Body - Injured Reserve ?Zemgus Girgensons - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Vinnie Hinostroza - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Henri Jokiharju - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Colin Miller - Lower Body - Injured Reserve ?Malcolm Subban - Upper Body - Injured Reserve​

?Jake Muzzin - Concussion - Injured Reserve            ?Ondrej Kase - Undisclosed - Doubtful​

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[herman]

With a game like this for a Leaf team like this, it'll either be a 12-2 W or an 8-7 OTL (it was 6-1!)

 

[bustaheims]

With a game like this for a Leaf team like this, it'll either be a 12-2 W or an 8-7 OTL (it was 6-1!)

Or a 2-1 loss where they dominate but Anderson has his best performance in years.

Or a repeat of a week and a half ago against the Habs.

Lots of options for this one.

 

[Frank E]

100% capacity tonight.

 

[Arn]

100% capacity tonight.

Attendance or the team's effort levels? 

 

[Frank E]

100% capacity tonight.

Attendance or the team's effort levels? 

Trap game, right?  Buffalo has lost 6 in a row.

 

[cujo4ever]

GO LEAFS GO!

 

[princedpw]

What's up with Kase?

 

[Guilt Trip]

What's up with Kase?

Minor injury or has the bug that went through the team. I don't think he's going to cost much to resign if the Leafs go that route.

 

[disco]

Go Leafs Go!

 

[ZBBM]

Wow, Dahlin already at 250 games as a Sabre.

Poor bugger.

 

[ZBBM]

That was a toe pick.

 

[L K]

That wasn?t a trip.  He picked his toe.  Of course the far official makes the call from behind with poor visibility of the play.  I guess March is going to continue the Leafs being called as a goon team

 

[Frank E]

Bench Rielly.

 

[ZBBM]

Bad break.

 

[L K]

Holy hell

 

[herman]

Oops

 

[Guilt Trip]

Rielly with the goal, against Mrazek lol. Stop the puck or get out of the way.

 

[L K]

Ok so that?s the second time in the last while where a defender blocks the puck and then just lies on the puck and gets a whistle from the officials?.why is that not delay of game

 

[azzurri63]

So why the whistle there after the Marner shot. The refs didn't blow it till the puck came loose.