TORONTO — Mitch Marner was asked if there's any added incentive playing the opponent that crushed the Maple Leafs' hopes five months ago.
The Toronto winger started his answer heading one direction —"Any time you get to play a team again, you wanna …" — before appearing to catch himself.
The Leafs went into the series as heavy favourites after beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in six to end nearly two decades of post-season misery, only to be sent meekly packing two weeks later. Head coach Sheldon Keefe switched up his second and third lines along with two blue-line pairs at practice Wednesday before flying south.Knies was promoted to the second line with Tavares and William Nylander, while Domi was with rookie Fraser Minten and Calle Jarnkrok.
The same goes on defence, which on Wednesday included Klingberg paired with Timothy Liljegren, and McCabe skating alongside Mark Giordano.
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