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Tonight at Madison Square Garden, Martin Jones will backstop the Maple Leafs in a tired situation on the road against the best home team in the league by points percentage (7:00 p.m. EST, TSN4).
This is the second time this season the Maple Leafs have entered the second half of a back-to-back as the tired team playing a rested opponent — the first was an impressive 5-2 win over Vancouver in November — but tonight is the first challenge of such nature on the road.
Winners of eight of their last nine on home ice, the Rangers are tied with the Bruins for the top points percentage in the NHL (.750) and are coming off of an impressive bounce-back win at MSG over the high-flying LA Kings to end a two-game losing slide.
The Leafs played a hard-fought overtime game on Long Island last night (4-3 loss), but the lack of any significant travel and the relatively in-check minutes of their top players should help their cause. In the category of not helping their cause, it sounds as though the team will have several game-time decisions up front and on defense due to a flu bug going around the dressing room. On the Rangers’ side, K’Andre Miller, who has five goals off the blue line and is logging 22:11/game, will be absent due to personal reasons.
Martin Jones will make his first start for the Maple Leafs in goal on a night when Toronto is going to have to dig deep to keep their six-game points streak alive.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines*
*game time decisions expected on defense and forward
Forwards
#23 Matthew Knies – #34 Auston Matthews – #88 William Nylander
#59 Tyler Bertuzzi – #91 John Tavares – #16 Mitch Marner
#89 Nick Robertson – #11 Max Domi – #19 Calle Jarnkrok
#74 Bobby McMann – #64 David Kampf – #18 Noah Gregor
Defensemen
#44 Morgan Rielly – #78 TJ Brodie
#85 William Lagesson – #22 Jake McCabe
#2 Simon Benoit – #25 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
Starter: #31 Martin Jones
#30 Ilya Samsonov
Scratched: Max Lajoie, Ryan Reaves
Injured/Out: Joseph Woll, John Klingberg, Timothy Liljegren, Mark Giordano
New York Rangers Projected Lines
Forwards
#20 Chris Kreider – #93 Mika Zibanejad – #17 Blake Wheeler
#10 Artemi Panarin – #16 Vincent Trocheck – #13 Alexis Lafreniere
#50 Will Cuylle – #12 Nick Bonino – #22 Jonny Brodzinski
#26 Jimmy Vesey – #21 Barclay Goodrow – #71 Tyler Pitlick
Defensemen
#56 Ryan Lindgren – #23 Adam Fox
#56 Erik Gustafsson – #6 Jacob Trouba
#6 Zac Jones – #4 Braden Schneider
Goaltenders
Starter: #31 Igor Shesterkin
#32 Jonathan Quick
Injured/Out: Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, K’Andre Miller
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