The Maple Leafs (optional) and Montreal Canadiens skated at Scotiabank Arena on Saturday. Mark Masters has more on Auston Matthews, who skated for the first time since last week with injury.
The Canadiens are looking to snap a five-game skid when they renew their rivalry with the Leafs on Saturday night in Toronto.
"There's no better time to end the streak than Saturday night in this rink and against this team," said Canadiens defenceman Matthews, who is dealing with a nagging upper-body issue, is eligible to be activated off injured reserve for Tuesday's game against the Robertson drew a penalty, which led to a Leafs goal on Friday. He received the team's player-of-the-game belt after what was his 100th NHL game.
"Something that I'll cherish for a long time," said Marner."Really cool kind of opportunity for myself.""That's a guy I tried to idolize a lot," Marner told TSN in an intermission interview."Just a guy that made so much magic out there and in this league, and he made it look easy, not just offensively either, just with how good he was defensively and how he took both sides of the puck really seriously.
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