Game 28: Penguins @ Leafs - Mar. 14th, 7:00PM - Sportsnet, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

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19-8-0, 38 points | 15-11-1, 31 points

Season Series
1-1

Projected Lines

Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis Bennett-Sutter-Neal Cooke-Jeffrey-Kennedy Glass-Vitale-Adams Orpik-Martin Niskanen-Letang Eaton-Engelland Fleury​

JVR-Bozak-Kessel Komarov-Grabovski-Kulemin MacArthur-Kadri-Frattin McClaren-McClement-Orr Gunnarsson-Phaneuf Liles-Holzer Fraser-Franson Scrivens​

Line-up Notes

PIT
?Fleury is the likely starter for the Penguins

TOR
?Reimer is the likely starter for the Leafs
?Carlyle indicated that there could be changes in the Leafs line-up against Pittsburgh, which can only mean McLaren will probably play with Kessel and Bozak
?UPDATE: Scrivens starts, Liles goes in for Kostka

Statistical Leaders

Kunitz - 18 Crosby - 33 Crosby - 45 Kunitz - +22 Glass - 36 Fleury - 13 Fleury - 2.67 Fleury - .901​

G A P +/- PIM W GAA SA%​

14 - van Riemsdyk 16 - Kessel 25 - Kessel/Kadri +15 - Fraser 69 - Orr 9 - Reimer 2.51 - Scrivens .919 - Scrivens

Season Overview

PIT 19 8 0 38 100 78 24.8% 78.2% 11-4-0 Won 6 8-2-0​

W L OT P GF GA PP% PK% Away | Home Streak L10​

TOR 15 11 1 31 81 75 18.0% 83.9% 6-5-1 Lost 3 5-4-1

Injuries

PIT
Evgeni Malkin - Upper Body - Out indefinitely

TOR
Joffrey Lupul - Forearm - Mid March

Hot or Not

PIT
Sidney Crosby - 654 pts in last 461 GP
Kris Letang 12 pts in last 6 GP
Chris Kunitz - 12 goals in last 10 GP
Tyler Kennedy - 0 pts in last 3 GP
Matt Cooke - 0 pts in last 3 GP

TOR
Phil Kessel - 9 pts in last 5 GP
James van Reimsdyk - 6 pts in last 6 GP
Nikolai Kulemin - 0 pts in last 3 GP
Tyler Bozak - 0 pts in last 3 GP

Stream Options

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http://atdee.net/index.html
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[maplesyrup]

Going! - With my daughter who is crushing on Crosby... Sidney this, Sidney that. Yuk. Anyway, I'm looking forward.

 

[Kaberle15]

Nice one!

Go Leafs Go! lets stop the free fall at 3.

 

[Boston Leaf]

No Malkin... We need to forecheck from drop of puck. stayout of box.. all the usual cliches

 

[L K]

Free Liles/Gardiner.  Banish Kostka/Holzer. 

Also please stop playing Colton Orr 8-10 minutes a night.  He can't play hockey.  Thanks.

 

[Andy007]

Free Liles/Gardiner.  Banish Kostka/Holzer. 

Also please stop playing Colton Orr 8-10 minutes a night.  He can't play hockey.  Thanks.

My thoughts exactly. And I'd ask for Hamilton to take Orr's place in the lineup. Oh and Kadri to play more than 13-14 mins.

 

[Deebo]

I don't think Hamilton is an NHL player but I wouldn't mind seeing Liles get another shot. I didn't think he'd be scratched for this long when the benching started.

The 18 wheeler is getting pretty close to the cliff again, Let's hope it doesn't fall off again.

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

?Carlyle indicated that there could be changes in the Leafs line-up against Pittsburgh, which can only mean McLaren will probably play with Kessel and Bozak

Nice CTB! 

 

[Zee]

There "could" be changes.  Which also means, there could not be, why fix what's broke hey Randy?

 

[Peter D.]

This game is giving me an uneasy feeling.  I sense that Crosby goes off with a 4-point night.

 

[bustaheims]

markhmasters: Ben Scrivens in the home net at Leafs optional morning skate; appears he'll start tonight v Pens

 

[Deebo]

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/03/13/leafs-lupul-says-hes-ready

?It is not my decision,? Lupul said. ?It?s whenever I am cleared to play, I will be playing. For me, I feel good and my conditioning is fine. Ready to go when I get the green light.?

?He looks good from the standpoint of the way he moves out there,? coach Randy Carlyle said. ?But I don?t think it would be wise to get too far ahead of ourselves with him participating in a limited amount in (his) first practice. He just did all of the forechecking. Instead of a coach doing it we sent a player to do it. We will have more on the doctor?s assessment of him as we go forward in the next couple of days.?

I doubt we see him today but my bet is on one of the next 2 games.

 

[Derk]

I hope the Leafs win this one. It is getting pretty close to the same point last season when they began their swoon, is it not?

At the very least, they need to start getting involved in three point games like everyone else seems to be doing.

 

[Deebo]

Liles is back in tonight.

 

[Peter D.]

Who's coming out?  Holzer?

 

[Deebo]

Who's coming out?  Holzer?

I hear Kostka from posters at HFBoards, but haven't read anything from the beat reporters.

 

[Zee]

Wow.  Hope Liles has a good game, Leafs could use it.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Who's coming out?  Holzer?

I hear Kostka from posters at HFBoards, but haven't read anything from the beat reporters.

Kostka stayed on the ice late at practice, and that usually indicates a scratch.

My guess is Gunnarsson goes back up with Phaneuf and Liles plays with Holzer.

 

[bustaheims]

jonasTSN1050: Kostka getting extra work after skate. Looks like he'll be the odd man out with Liles going on.

 

[Erndog]

Wonder what the pairings are?

Phaneuf-Holzer
Liles-Gunnarsson
Fraser-Franson


The 1st and 3rd pair have played together quite a bit recently so I'd wager they want to keep a few pairs in tact instead of tampering with all three.

Eventually Gardiner's gotta come back.  Other than Franson (and Phaneuf) nobody else can/has really played the right side.  Going to be interesting.