Leafs @ Flyers - Jan. 19th, 7:00pm - TSN4, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

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16-20-7, 39 points | 20-15-8, 48 points

Projected Lines

Matthias-Kadri-Komarov Grabner-Bozak-Parenteau Boyes-Holland-Lupul Leivo-Froese-Clune Gardiner-Phaneuf Hunwick-Rielly Corrado-Polak Reimer ​

Voracek-Giroux-Simmonds Raffl-Couturier-Schenn VandeVelde-Bellmare-White Read-Laughton-Umberger Del Zotto-Rudas Schultz-Streit Gostisbehere-Medvedev Mason​

Scratches

Martin Marincin Daniel Winnik ​

Brandon Manning Jordan Weal​

Game Notes

TOR
?Reimer will start for the Leafs
?Waiting for the morning skate to see what Winnik's status is
?Matthias and Grabner have switched spots in the top-6
?Corrado likely goes in for Marincin after that late-game giveaway
?Look for Kadri to take some PK minutes, Babcock said yesterday it was something that he wanted to start doing soon
?The Leafs have lost 5 games in a row

PHI
?Mason will likely start for the Flyers
?Looking forward to finally learning how to pronounce Gostisbehere's name. The rookie defenceman has 16 points in just 25 games this season
?The Flyers are 5-0-1 in their last 6 games
Injuries

?Stephane Robidas - Old - Out indefinitely ?Nick Spaling - Upper Body - Injured Reserve ?James van Riemsdyk - Foot - Injured Reserve​

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Stream Options

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[CarltonTheBear]

Babcock on Kadri's role as a potential penalty killer:

?We think he?s going to be good on the penalty kill. We were going to do it for next season, but here we are today, and we needed to get him some reps there in practice. He?ll be back on the power play in the morning skate (Tuesday prior to the Leafs road game in Philadelphia).?

Babcock said Kadri?s introduction to this season?s penalty kill will be gradual. Kadri, 25, last had a regular role on the Leafs? power play [CtB note: think that should say penalty kill] in 2013, where he spent seven games on it under former coach Randy Carlyle.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/2016/01/19/maple-leafs-experiment-with-nazem-kadri-on-penalty-kill.html

 

[L K]

RANK	TEAM	GP	POINTS	ROW	POINT%	DRAFT%
1	Columbus	46	38	15	0.83	20.0%
2	Toronto	43	39	12	0.91	13.5%
3	Buffalo	46	42	18	0.91	11.5%
4	Edmonton	47	43	15	0.91	9.5%
5	Calgary	43	43	19	1.00	8.5%
6	Anaheim	44	45	17	1.02	7.5%
7	Winnipeg	46	45	21	0.98	6.5%
8	Colorado	47	49	23	1.04	6.0%
9	Vancouver	46	48	15	1.04	5.0%
10	Philadelphia	43	48	18	1.12	3.5%
11	Ottawa	46	50	18	1.09	3.0%
12	Nashville	45	48	18	1.07	2.5%
13	Carolina	47	48	20	1.02	2.0%
14	San Jose	44	49	21	1.11	1.0%

Washington @ Columbus
Edmonton @ Tampa
Calgary @ New Jersey

 

[Boston Leaf]

5, 6, and 7 are kind of surprising. Although i never was sold on the Winnipeg hyp

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Washington @ Columbus

Bob's starting!

(Washington probably still beats them though)

 

[ZBBM]

Who is this young d-man, of whom it is said,
Fills Philly's opponents with trembling and dread?
To speak his name rightly?why should we care?
It's neither gostisbehere nor gostisbethere.

 

[Can8899]

TOR

?The Leafs have lost 5 games in a row

PHI

?The Flyers are 5-0-1 in their last 6 games

Which means the Leafs will win tonight of course...

 

[bustaheims]

5, 6, and 7 are kind of surprising. Although i never was sold on the Winnipeg hyp

Calgary's really not a surprise, either. Their advanced stats were not very good last season, and won a significant number of games with late comebacks and other trends that just aren't maintainable. There seems to be one team that overcomes their poor possession every year, only to fall back down to the bottom of the league the next. That was the Leafs, the Avs, and now, the Flames.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Who is this young d-man, of whom it is said,
Fills Philly's opponents with trembling and dread?
To speak his name rightly?why should we care?
It's neither gostisbehere nor gostisbethere.

Bravo good sir.

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Thank you for another wonderful GDT, CTB! I feel a strong night for the Tank is in the cards, especially looking at how the first lines stack up (5-1 Flyers).

I know the Flyers have a number of good young defencemen in their system, but where was Gostisbehere on that list coming into this year?

EDIT: Leafs struggling PP sporting different look today (from Jonas Siegel):

PP1: Phaneuf/Rielly/Parenteau/Bozak/Boyes
PP2: Rielly/Gardiner/Komarov/Holland/Lupul

I don't necessarily mind the D pairings, but the forwards on PP1... yikes!

 

[Arn]

Dion, that's the wrong Schenn!

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Does anyone ever get called for hitting Reimer?

 

[Arn]

That's a horrible soft penalty to Lupul too.

Someone needs to give Simmons a slap too

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Kadri's GA/60 at 4-on-5 is god-awful right now.

 

[Kin]

This has not been a roaring start to the game for the Leafs.

 

[Arn]

If the Jackets win and Leafs lose in regulation the Leafs go bottom. It's all coming together

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Polak improving his trade value!

Boyes too!

 

[ZBBM]

THE ROMANATOR

 

[Kin]

Polak!

Offensive skills to go with surehanded defensive acumen? Seems like a useful piece to add at the deadline to me.

 

[ZBBM]

Holland and Boyes with the prettiness on that play.