LIVE NHL Play By Play Commentary Vegas Golden Knights @Toronto Maple Leafs

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Seeking their eighth consecutive victory, the Maple Leafs will need to be prepared for a hungry and proud Vegas team in the rematch tonight at Scotiabank Arena

The Golden Knights followed up last week’s 7-3 drubbing at the hands of the Leafs with a 4-3 shootout loss to Ottawa on Saturday night while the Leafs were gutting out a win in Colorado against an Avalanche team that controlled large portions of the game.

The Golden Knights came out hungry and largely dominated the first 25 minutes against Ottawa while taking a 2-0 lead, but Vegas gave up three unanswered in the second and third periods and needed a goal with 1:15 remaining in regulation just to grab a point.

The Golden Knights will ice the same group of skaters from last week’s loss to Toronto with some shuffling amongst their forward lines, while the Leafs will dress the same forward lines but have been forced to rejig their defense pairings due to Timothy Liljegren’s short-term injury absence.

That means six lefties will dress for the Leafs tonight, and based on Monday’s practice lines, Simon Benoit and Mark Giordano could shift to the right side, although it remains to be seen how the D pairs are configured in line rushes in warmups (the morning skate was optional). It may well have been about getting those defensemen reps on the right in practice more than preparation for this game. Rielly – Brodie / Benoit – McCabe / Giordano – Lagesson seems like the more probable setup at game time tonight, reuniting two familiar pairings and placing three defensemen on the right who have had plenty of recent game reps on that side of the ice. But we won’t know until warmups.

Six left-shot D could mean a few extra challenges moving the puck up the ice against the Vegas forecheck and further underscores the importance of committed five-man support in all three zones for the Leafs tonight.

After the Leafs chased Adin Hill from last week’s game, he will get an opportunity to atone for his part in the 4-0 first period in Vegas. Ilya Samsonov will start for the Maple Leafs coming off of one of his best starts of the season in Colorado.

Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines*
*with an optional morning skate, official lines and pairs won’t be known until line rushes in warmups

Forwards
#23 Matthew Knies – #34 Auston Matthews – #16 Mitch Marner
#59 Tyler Bertuzzi – #11 Max Domi – #88 William Nylander
#74 Bobby McMann – #91 John Tavares – #89 Nick Robertson
#29 Pontus Holmberg – #64 David Kampf – #75 Ryan Reaves

Defensemen
#44 Morgan Rielly – #78 TJ Brodie
#2 Simon Benoit – #22 Jake McCabe
#55 Mark Giordano – #85 William Lagesson

OR
#44 Morgan Rielly – #2 Simon Benoit
#78 TJ Brodie – #22 Jake McCabe
#85 William Lagesson – #55 Mark Giordano

Goaltenders
Starter: #35 Ilya Samsonov
#31 Martin Jones

Scratched: Noah Gregor, Max Lajoie
Injured/Out: Calle Jarnkrok, Joseph Woll, Conor Timmins, Timothy Liljegren

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines
Forwards
#19 Brendan Brisson – #71 William Karlsson – #81 Jonathan Marchessault
#49 Ivan Barbashev – #20 Chandler Stephenson – #22 Michael Amadio
#43 Paul Cotter – #10 Nicolas Roy – #55 Keegan Kolesar
#11 Mason Morelli – #51 Byron Froese – #56 Sheldon Rempal

Defensemen
#23 Alec Martinez – #7 Alex Pietrangelo
#3 Brayden McNab – #27 Shea Theodore
#14 Nicolas Hague – #2 Zach Whitecloud

Goaltenders
Starter: #33 Adin Hill
#26 Logan Thompson

Injured/Out: Mark Stone, Jack Eichel, William Carrier, Brett Howden, Ben Hutton, Tobias Bjornfot, Pavel Dorofeyev

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