It’s going to be a one-on-one rush, at least for the fans, when Auston Matthews and Connor Bedard face off on Monday night.
First picks overall and capturing the hockey world’s attention in Week 1 of NHL play, they should enliven a sleepy October on the schedule, maybe lure a few eyes from the NFL’s Monday nighter between the Cowboys and Chargers, or the baseball playoffs.Matthews, coming off back-to-back hat tricks, needs to score just one to become the first Maple Leaf to amass seven in a three-game span, since Rick Vaive during a late-season spurt in 1986-87.
“ is not easy to please, a lot of expectations for him, but he’s done great with . He hasn’t lost himself.” The Leafs are keeping almost the entire lineup together from their somewhat sloppy home wins over Montreal and Minnesota in which they gave up nine total goals. There will be a change in net, though, with young Joseph Woll making his first start since the team’s second-round playoff overtime loss to Florida last spring.
“It’s that and we have guys still getting up to speed and one little breakdown tends to have somebody else cover and ultimately leaves you exposed.”
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