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The Los Angeles Kings have 11 players with four or more even-strength points so far this season as five-on-five scoring depth has been a major asset for them even as their power play has been mediocre (and their goaltending has been underwhelming). The Leafs, by comparison, have four players with four or more even-strength points through eight games, but their power play is clicking among the best in the league.
As such, this should be a good test of the Leafs‘ depth and their ability to match LA’s pace and energy over 60 minutes as the Kings will roll their lines. Behind Anze Kopitar’s 14:22 of even-strength TOI/game, the Kings’ next eight forwards fall in between 12:29 and 13:33. The Leafs have a much wider even-strength ice-time disparity whereby their top nine forwards range from 10:54 at the bottom end (David Kampf) to over 16 minutes at the top end (Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews, with Nylander not far behind them at 15:34).
Early in the season, Todd McLellan’s ability to roll out his lines centered by Kopitar, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Phillip Danault without much stress about matchups has been a major benefit to the Kings on the road, where they are currently 3-0-0 with a whopping 17 goals for and eight against.
In net, the Maple Leafs have a distinct advantage by the early-season, small-sample numbers with Cam Talbot and Pheonix Copley off to wobbly starts and Joseph Woll sporting a .961 save percentage entering tonight’s game. Woll will likely be fully tested, though, by the hot sticks of the Kings and their ability to get pucks and numbers to the net-front area with regularity at five-on-five.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards
#19 Calle Jarnkrok – #34 Auston Matthews – #16 Mitch Marner
#59 Tyler Bertuzzi – #91 John Tavares – #88 William Nylander
#23 Matthew Knies – #64 David Kampf – #11 Max Domi
#18 Noah Gregor – #29 Pontus Holmberg – #75 Ryan Reaves
Defensemen
#44 Morgan Rielly – #78 TJ Brodie
#55 Mark Giordano – #37 Timothy Liljegren
#85 William Lagesson – #3 John Klingberg
Goaltenders
Starter: #60 Joseph Woll
#35 Ilya Samsonov
Injured: Conor Timmins, Jake McCabe
Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines
Forwards
#55 Quinton Byfield – #11 Anze Kopitar – #9 Adrian Kempe
#22 Kevin Fiala – #80 Pierre-Luc Dubois – #78 Alex Laferriere
#12 Trevor Moore – #24 Phillip Danault – #34 Arthur Kaliyev
#91 Carl Grundstrom – #46 Blake Lizotte – #61 Trevor Lewis
Defensemen
#44 Mikey Anderson – #8 Drew Doughty
#84 Vladislav Gavrikov – #3 Matt Roy
#5 Andreas Englund – #53 Jordan Spence
Goaltenders
Starter: #39 Cam Talbot
#29 Pheonix Copley
Injured: Viktor Arvidsson
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