Toronto Maple Leafs teammares Mitch Marner and William Nylander will be on opposite sides Wednesday night as Canada opens the 4 Nations Face-Off against Sweden in Montreal. Mark Masters has more.
Team Canada, Team USA, and Team Sweden practised at the Bell Centre on Tuesday ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off.
Just like in 2017 in Cologne, Germany, Marner and Nylander will be playing in prominent roles in Montreal this week. on Canada's top line. Nylander can't pinpoint just one area for his new Swedish teammates to focus on when it comes to slowing down Marner. Considering the anticipation for the return of best-on-best hockey, the energy could even go up a notch from an NHL game.
"Of course we're buddies," Nylander said."It's just you got a full gig going with your Swedish buddies and hanging out with them. So, I mean, we're with each other every day for most of the year, but for now it's focusing on the team that we're with." Marner is grateful that he got a chance to skate with some of the top Canadian players during the summer, which allowed him to arrive with some pre-existing chemistry.
But will Matthews hesitate at all to lay a hit on Marner or Nylander should the situation call for it? "Somehow he reads and sniffs out those breakaways and sometimes that can be good, but sometimes you can also lose a guy in the defensive zone," said Swedish defenceman . "I think he's getting better at that. I don't watch Toronto every day but what I see is his evaluation of the situation has become more solid and you see it in the numbers.""It was years ago, so he's grown a lot," Ekholm noted.
Nylander doesn't wear a letter with the Leafs, but has grown into a supporting leadership role with Toronto over the years.
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