William Nylander missed Friday's practice and the Leafs aren't offering many details on his status and while left winger Bobby McMann missed the last two games with a lower-body injury and was also absent from practice.
"We kept him off the ice today," said tightlipped coach Sheldon Keefe." has made it pretty clear to me that there will not be daily injury updates or anything like that."
"We have decided, but we're not sharing it with you guys," said Montgomery."We got two great goaltenders. Our entire group is comfortable with either one and performance is going to dictate a lot of how we move forward.", who represented the team at the All-Star Game, went 4-4-0 with an .884 save percentage in that same stretch. "The preparation is about finding ways to get through their team to the goalie," Keefe said."The goalie is an afterthought for us.
"That decision was made weeks ago," the coach revealed."I have liked what we have seen from that. I like the options it gives our guys and the rest of our lineup. It was quite easy."Matthews just picked up his third Rocket Richard Trophy by scoring 69 goals, which is the most in the NHL since Mario Lemieux hit that number in 1995-96.
"Obviously, it is a different time of the year," said Keefe."He is going to be a focal point of the opposition."."Their physicality in the defensive zone, they're able to create loose pucks and separate the best players from the puck and that's a hard thing to do in this league. It's rare that you get two guys of that calibre who are able to play together and figure it out, but they've done a great job.
"When you start looking at the past, good or bad, it will have a negative impact on your future," he said."So, you just gotta stay in the moment ... We definitely learned that last year."
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