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Preseason: Sabres @ Leafs - Sept. 29th, 7:00pm - TSN4

CarltonTheBear

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The Leafs are in St. Catharines tonight taking on the Sabres. The Kadri/Nylander group plays tonight, while Matthews will make his Leafs preseason debut tomorrow night with the 2nd group. Lines at practice yesterday were:

Rychel-Kadri-Holland
Hyman-Nylander-Martin
Lindberg-C.Smith-Clune
Leivo-Gauthier-Leipsic
Cameranesi

Valiev-Carrick
Dermott-Marincin
Loov-Holl
Hrabarenka-Brouillard

Sparks
Kaskisuo
 
I hope Valiev-Carrick turns out to be as smooth and dynamic as I'm expecting.

Any chance for Nylander v Nylander tonight and Matthews v Eichel tomorrow?
 
herman said:
Any chance for Nylander v Nylander tonight and Matthews v Eichel tomorrow?
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Hornby confirms the first one:

Lance Hornby ‏@sunhornby
Nylander vs Nylander tonight in St. Kitts. "Mom will be wearing a half Leaf, half Sabres sweater," says William.
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With eight D listed, I'm guessing Hrabarenka, Brouillard might be sitting this one out after the game skate.  2 D will be at any rate.
 
Gardiner51 said:
Kadri ,  Leivo, Sparks  and Holland playing Good tonight.
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It's been a boring game.  I agree with Sparks, Kadri, and Holland.  Not sure about Leivo.  Nylander has been a bit invisible out there.
 
It's been a messy game.

Sparks and Kaskisuo acquitting themselves well. Leafs generally getting hemmed with regularity still. Our Nylander putting in some good shifts in the third. We're getting pretty open shots too, but they haven't gone in yet.
 
Its too bad William doesn't have the size of his brother Alex.  William does look tiny out there, except for his big bobble head.
 
gunnar36 said:
Its too bad William doesn't have the size of his brother Alex.  William does look tiny out there, except for his big bobble head.
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William is actually almost ten pounds bigger, Alex is more lean and about 1.5 inches taller.
 
That was a pretty bad game for the Buds.  I get that its preseason but there were a few Sparks here and there.  Some take aways, Leivo/Gauthier played better in the 3rd.  Nylander needs to skate hard all the time.  He floats too much right now.  I think he needs to get into his head that he still needs to make this team and it's not a given.  Kadri was bad.  Passes were bad and pretty much no shots.  No one else really showed me much on the ice.  Can't wait to see tomorrow's lineup.  Should be much better than this one.
 
No.92 said:
That was a pretty bad game for the Buds.  I get that its preseason but there were a few Sparks here and there.  Some take aways, Leivo/Gauthier played better in the 3rd.  Nylander needs to skate hard all the time.  He floats too much right now.  I think he needs to get into his head that he still needs to make this team and it's not a given.  Kadri was bad.  Passes were bad and pretty much no shots.  No one else really showed me much on the ice.  Can't wait to see tomorrow's lineup.  Should be much better than this one.
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I didn't watch much of the game aside from the last 5 minutes, OT and shootout due to Canada beating Europe and all.

But I'm curious as to why you think Kadri was bad.  From the HF board reaction and from the little I saw, that didn't look like the case at all.

Care to enlighten us?
 
I Disagree about Kadri, him and Gauthier had the best Leafs scoring chances.

Pk was good.

Tonight rematch will be a 6-5 kind of game...
 
Kaskisuo made some dandy saves.  Overall though, the Leafs skate well and fast, and seem to be quite effective on the breakout.

However, they also, once in the offensive zone, a little disorganized or 'sloppy' in the sense that they couldn't quite generate some sort of organized passing to & fro.  The team impresses but lots of work to do yet.
 
hockeyfan1 said:
Kaskisuo made some dandy saves.  Overall though, the Leafs skate well and fast, and seem to be quite effective on the breakout.

However, they also, once in the offensive zone, a little disorganized or 'sloppy' in the sense that they couldn't quite generate some sort of organized passing to & fro.  The team impresses but lots of work to do yet.
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A lot more fun to watch this season
 
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