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Yesterday Hiller brought up unprompted that he used 11-7 a lot as coach, so I wondered when we'd see that here. I've always liked it, especially here where it would get guys like Matthews and Nylander and now maybe Marchenko or McKenna an extra shift instead of a dud 4th liner. Players don't...

Some pre-game reading:

Worth mentioning too that even Columbus was going to have him start the season at left wing prior to the trade.

Colorado Avalanche 3-1-0, 6 points vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 2-2-1, 5 points Projected Line-ups Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas Landeskog-Nelson-Kadri Schwartz-Svechkov-Hughes Kelly-Roy-L’Heureux Toews-Makar Kulak-Malinski Manson-Burns Wedgewood Marchenko-Matthews-Roslovic Cowan-Paul-Nylander...

I'd like to see some small tinkering. Keep Nylander with Matthews and Marchenko with Tavares for a stretch of games. Mix up the top-4 D pairings. I'd also probably take Groulx off the 4th line. I've always felt like it's tough for one single player to be the lone physical presence on a 4th line...

Hiller agrees, is it too late to count his vote?

His on-ice results matched his work effort in a genuinely good way for the first month or two he was here. But yeah eventually that ended up being the case too as the season went on.

Yeah that's beginning to get a little weird. It's not like there's that much separating the two of them (both small and mobile-ish defencemen). Stecher likely leans slightly more defensive while Blankenburg offensive. I thought maybe this was a PK thing but Blankenburg killed penalties with both...

Vegas Golden Knights 3-1-0, 6 points vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 2-2-0, 4 points Projected Line-ups Barbashev-Eichel-Stone Howden-Karlsson-Marner Connelly-Hertl-Olofsson Bowman-Dowd-Gatcomb McNabb-Theodore Wotherspoon-Andersson Lauzon-Hanifin Hart Roslovic-Matthews-Nylander...

Nashville Predators 1-1-0, 2 points @ Toronto Maple Leafs 1-2-0, 2 points Projected Line-ups Stamkos-O’Reilly-Kerfoot Forsberg-Wood-Hoglander Colton-Bourque-Marchessault Schaefer-Drury-Edstrom Josi-Hague Skjei-Perbix Trudeau-Wilsby Saros Marchenko-Matthews-Roslovic...

Ottawa Senators 0-0-0, 0 points @ Toronto Maple Leafs 1-1-0, 2 points Projected Line-ups Foegele-Stutzle-Batherson Eklund-Cozens-Zetterlund Amadio-Pinto-Giroux Cousins-Halliday-Hodgson Sanderson-Matinpalo Chabot-Spence Kleven-Yakemchuk Ullmark Marchenko-Matthews-Roslovic...

We should extend Quillan to a 7-year, $1.25mil AAV contract.

I was a little surprised about that yeah, especially Joshua because unlike the other two it didn't seem like he was guaranteed to be missing that much time. But I don't think there's a real upside or downside so probably wouldn't read into it in any way.

December feels incredibly optimistic/unlikely for him. But if he does return this season as things stand the Leafs will be able to remove both him and Joshua from LTIR and still ice any cap compliant 23-man roster from the guys in the organization. That means carrying 3 goalies or having...

Akhtyamov loses his waiver exemption next season so it'll be in the Leafs best interest to try him in more games before then anyway.

In a perfect world, maybe. But there's also the reality that Stolarz turns 33 in January and has averaged just 23 starts a season over the past 5 years. Something like 60/40 is probably best case scenario.

Through 2 games and despite only starting a single shift in the defensive end the McKenna-Tavares-Nylander line is down 9-31 in shot attempts, 6-16 in actual shots on net, 0-2 in goals, and have a xGF% of just 16%. Obviously, not ideal. I think JT's looked very slow. Maybe the shorter training...