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Tampa Bay Lightning 12-8-2, 26 pts | vs. | Toronto Maple Leafs 13-7-2, 28 pts |
Projected Line-ups |
Guentzel-Point-Kucherov Hagel-Cirelli Goncalves-Geekie-Atkinson Girgensons-Glendening-Eyssimont Hedman-Moser McDonagh-Cernak Lilleberg-Perbix Raddysh Vasilevskiy | Knies-Matthews-Nylander Holmberg-Tavares-Marner Roberson-Minten-Lorentz Steeves-Dewar-Grebenkin Rielly-OEL McCabe-Tanev Benoit-Timmins Stolarz |
Scratches |
Nick Paul Mitchell Chaffee Matt Tomkins | | Ryan Reaves Jani Hakanpaa Philippe Myers |
Injuries |
Nick Paul - Undisclosed - Questionable Mitchell Chaffee - Undisclosed - Questionable | | Auston Matthews - Upper Body - Probable Matthew Knies - Upper Body - Probable Bobby McMann - Lower Body - Day to day Max Domi - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Calle Jarnkrok - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Max Pacioretty - Lower Body - Injured Reserve David Kampf - Lower Body - Injured Reserve |
Game Notes |
TB -Andrei Vasilevskiy (10-7-1, 2.40 GAA, .910 Sv%) will likely start for the Lightning -Not a big surprise who's leading the way for Tampa. Kucherov is 1st on the team in points with 34 in 22 games (5th in the NHL) while Point has 16 goals in 18 games (3rd in the NHL). |
TOR -Anthony Stolarz (7-4-2, 2.32 GAA, .921 Sv%) will likely start for the Leafs -Toronto is expecting to welcome back both Matthews and Knies on Saturday night as they lined up alongside William Nylander at practice Friday |
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