Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe would be silly to not put forward Michael Bunting into the lineup for Game 6.
Would Keefe’s lineup changes include the blue line? The pair of Justin Holl and Mark Giordano has not held up its end, and the basic numbers on Holl are bad.
“I guess my first response would be whether has been on the ice by himself in those situations,” Keefe said when asked about possibly inserting Liljegren. “I think the answer is is not out there by himself in those situations when he is getting scored on. “Our D needs to break the puck out a little bit better,” Morgan Rielly said. “That’s the root of it. When they’re putting the puck in, they tend to be getting it back a little bit.
Said Keefe: “They play hard. One team has to get on top of the other, and they have been able to get on top of us pretty consistently. We have to find our way through that.”The Leafs, and we’re talking about the ones who have been part of the first-round losses in the past six years, figure those playoff scars can help see them through.Article content
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