Ducks @ Leafs - Dec. 19th, 7:30pm - SNO, TSN 1050

[Zee]

Freddy the Goat is in?  Yes!

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris
John Gibson is in the starter's net for the Ducks.

Gibson (10-9-4, 2.69 GAA, .906 Sv%) starts.

 

[herman]

Kristen Shilton ‏@kristen_shilton
Gardiner is sick, Bozak has lower body injury, Smith has upper body injury. Both day to day. Gauthier, Leivo playing tonight.

I just watched the Leafs Blueprint (Ep. 5) and it showed Bozak walking towards the bus at the end with a hint of a limp favouring the right leg. That was a couple of days ago, and might be something that just caught up to him.

Gauthier over Froese might be a size request coming up against Anaheim, and I'm guessing it's only very temporary.

http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-prospects/2016/12/19/14006270/frederik-gauthier-recalled-by-the-toronto-maple-pleafs

As covered in depth here, today is the Holiday Roster Freeze. By calling Gauthier up now, after December 11, the Leafs may loan him back to the Marlies anytime before the end of the day on December 23. He could be in the Marlies lineup for their next game on Boxing Day. If they choose not to send him back, he is with the Leafs until December 28, which is the middle of the Florida portion of their WJC road trip.

 

[Highlander]

Interesting 4th line, should be nice to see a new wrinkle as well as seeing Willie centre JVR and Marner

 

[Zee]

Surprised they're not giving Bernier the start.

 

[disco]

Gibson vs Andersen. Our third 'Trade for the California Backup to Be Our #1 Goalie' finally breaks through. In the salary-cap world that's really where you can get one, outside of drafting them. Montreal went through it with Price and Halak, Pittsburgh now dealing with Murray and Fleury.

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Kristen Shilton ‏@kristen_shilton
Gardiner is sick, Bozak has lower body injury, Smith has upper body injury. Both day to day. Gauthier, Leivo playing tonight.

I just watched the Leafs Blueprint (Ep. 5) and it showed Bozak walking towards the bus at the end with a hint of a limp favouring the right leg. That was a couple of days ago, and might be something that just caught up to him.

Gauthier over Froese might be a size request coming up against Anaheim, and I'm guessing it's only very temporary.

http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-prospects/2016/12/19/14006270/frederik-gauthier-recalled-by-the-toronto-maple-pleafs

As covered in depth here, today is the Holiday Roster Freeze. By calling Gauthier up now, after December 11, the Leafs may loan him back to the Marlies anytime before the end of the day on December 23. He could be in the Marlies lineup for their next game on Boxing Day. If they choose not to send him back, he is with the Leafs until December 28, which is the middle of the Florida portion of their WJC road trip.

That's what I figured, too. Froese is listed at 6', but I find that a little hard to believe.

 

[Zee]

Gibson vs Andersen. Our third 'Trade for the California Backup to Be Our #1 Goalie' finally breaks through. In the salary-cap world that's really where you can get one, outside of drafting them. Montreal went through it with Price and Halak, Pittsburgh now dealing with Murray and Fleury.

It's unfortunate that the Habs didn't trade Price at the time.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Gibson vs Andersen. Our third 'Trade for the California Backup to Be Our #1 Goalie' finally breaks through. In the salary-cap world that's really where you can get one, outside of drafting them. Montreal went through it with Price and Halak, Pittsburgh now dealing with Murray and Fleury.

It's unfortunate that the Habs didn't trade Price at the time.

Weren't a lot of Habs fans super upset that they traded Halak instead of Price too? Or am I remembering that wrong?

Because that was right after his huge playoff run.

 

[TBLeafer]

ROOKIES!  ROOKIES EVERYWHERE!


GO LEAFS GO!!!

 

[Zee]

Gibson vs Andersen. Our third 'Trade for the California Backup to Be Our #1 Goalie' finally breaks through. In the salary-cap world that's really where you can get one, outside of drafting them. Montreal went through it with Price and Halak, Pittsburgh now dealing with Murray and Fleury.

It's unfortunate that the Habs didn't trade Price at the time.

Weren't a lot of Habs fans super upset that they traded Halak instead of Price too? Or am I remembering that wrong?

Because that was right after his huge playoff run.

You are 100% correct.  There was a large contingent of fans that wanted to keep Halak and trade Price.  The narrative was that Price couldn't handle the Montreal pressure and would never flourish there.

 

[Highlander]

Certainly looks like it may be The Last Chance Saloon for Leivo (or a showcase option), and one wonders how much more time and effort they will take in trying to develop Freddie for the potential 4th line career ahead of him.

 

[Highlander]

In saying that I do wish them both great success in this new chance with the Leafs

 

[disco]

https://twitter.com/HennyTweets/status/810871881188286464
Party's over Willie, we need you at center. Start working on your face-offs!
With the injury to Bozie and Auston cracking 20 minutes for the first time last game, we'll probably see Babs continue to raise his ice-time incrementally.

Just thinking Frankie will probably get his shot with the next injury on the D. Marincin's been the only one so far.

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Certainly looks like it may be The Last Chance Saloon for Leivo (or a showcase option), and one wonders how much more time and effort they will take in trying to develop Freddie for the potential 4th line career ahead of him.

I thought I read something not too long ago about the Leafs grooming Gauthier for the 4-line center role. I remember Babcock saying the only real question with him is his ability to keep up to the pace in terms of skating. That said, I have no idea what his skating looks like this year.

 

[TBLeafer]

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Kristen Shilton ‏@kristen_shilton  59m59 minutes ago
toronto is where a hockey team's eighth defenceman is a top trending topic for three straight hours #frankiefactor

 

[freer]

Well we will see what Nylander got at centre.
The Goat getting.

Why don't they ever play Frankie.. I guess the coach is not a fan!

 

[disco]

Hendrick tweeted they like Gauthier's size, faceoffs and penalty killing. Gets him in the lineup.

 

[disco]

Gibson vs Andersen. Our third 'Trade for the California Backup to Be Our #1 Goalie' finally breaks through. In the salary-cap world that's really where you can get one, outside of drafting them. Montreal went through it with Price and Halak, Pittsburgh now dealing with Murray and Fleury.

It's unfortunate that the Habs didn't trade Price at the time.

Weren't a lot of Habs fans super upset that they traded Halak instead of Price too? Or am I remembering that wrong?

Because that was right after his huge playoff run.

You are 100% correct.  There was a large contingent of fans that wanted to keep Halak and trade Price.  The narrative was that Price couldn't handle the Montreal pressure and would never flourish there.

And Vancouver went through it as well with Luongo and Schneider. But got rid of them both! We did it with two prospects, but chose the wrong one (Pogge/Rask). I think to keep the younger one makes more fiscal sense but poses more risk. They're usually not as developed but they may surpass the older one. They won big with Price.

 

[L K]

That JVR-Nylander-Marner line should be fun.