Mitch Marner is poised to return to the Maple Leafs’ lineup on Saturday in Montreal, but he won't be reunited with Auston Matthews on the top line. Mark Masters has more on the Leafs' new look.
Mitch Marner is poised to return to the Leafs’ lineup on Saturday in Montreal, but he won't be reunited with "We're happy with how the line with Domi and Bertuzzi has gone with Matthews," explained coach Sheldon Keefe."That opens up some opportunity to look at some different things."
"He's probably the best player in the world right now," Domi told TSN before a game on March 26."He's so good at both ends of the ice and makes something happen out of nothing. He's a lot of fun to play with. Really responsible defensively and such a big, strong body, so absolutely enjoying every second of it.""Auston and Max have found a real good chemistry with the give-and-go game, which is something you see with Mitch in that spot a lot," said Keefe.
"Mitch's presence on that line enhances my ability to do that," said Keefe."It frees Auston up a little bit more for his line."Marner is a Selke Trophy nominee, who often tackles the toughest match-ups. McMann's emergence in that role, though, certainly stands out. With the Leafs scaling back practice time of late, Marner only got into two full workouts in the lead up to Saturday's game.
"Sheldon talked to me the past couple days about what he was thinking," Nylander said."I said, 'Let's get trying it so we're ready for playoffs.'" At Friday's practice, the top unit ran 5-on-0 reps before practice under the guidance of assistant coach Guy Boucher as Keefe watched from the glass. Then they did live reps against the penalty kill at the main practice.
"I didn't know about this," the 27-year-old goalie said."I don't know what's going. It's good. Probably good." "So much of his season has been about staying in the moment and focusing on what’s in front of him and that's it," said Keefe."That's important for anybody, but particularly for him and this season, the way it started to where he's at now, that's been the biggest area of improvement for him. Obviously, it's great to see he remains that way." "I know I've said it a lot of times, you guys are not kind to some people sometimes," Marner said.
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