The Leafs are in town, looking for revenge against the Bruins.
The Bruins suffered an embarrassing defeat on Thursday night to the Vancouver Canucks, showing an improvement in scoring depth, but a poor night in team defense, puck control and goaltending.
Also of slightly alarming note… goaltender Tuukka Rask is on personal leave – not for health reasons. GM Don Sweeney has refrained from explaining further, citing privacy. The Bruins signed a goalie on a PTO (Sean Bonar) and called up Dan Vladar from Providence.
The team has also finally spoken aloud concerning the absence of Charlie McAvoy – while mentioning ongoing vestibular issues, the player showed full-on concussions symptoms since the Edmonton game, and has been held out. He has just recently begun skating again.
Let’s do some lines.
First, another baby bruin will be in the house tonight
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Prospect Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson has been called up for the role of 3rd line center in tonight’s game. Noel Acciari will be a healthy scratch.
| Bruins Forward Lines | ||
|---|---|---|
 Brad Marchand |
 Patrice Bergeron |
 David Pastrnak |
 Joakim Nordstrom |
 David Krejci |
 Jake DeBrusk |
 Danton Heinen |
 #23 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson |
 Anders Bjork |
 Chris Wagner |
 Sean Kuraly |
 David Backes |
| Bruins Defensive pairs | ||
 Zdeno Chara |
 Brandon Carlo |
|
 Torey Krug |
 John Moore |
|
 Matt Grzelcyk |
 Stephen Kampfer |
|
| Bruins Goaltending | ||
| #41 Jaroslav Halak | (#80 Dan Vladar) |
Toronto has planted themselves firmly into 2nd place in the division. Screw them. Also interesting – two of their big three youngsters are out – William Nylander remains out due to a contract holdout, and Austin Matthews is still nursing a shoulder injury.
(h/t Daily Faceoff):
Maple Leafs Forwards
Zach Hyman — John Tavares — Mitch Marner
Patrick Marleau — Nazem Kadri — Kasperi Kapanen
Andreas Johnsson — Par Lindholm — Connor Brown
Tyler Ennis — Frederik Gauthier — Josh Leivo
Maple Leafs Defense
Morgan Rielly — Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner — Nikita Zaitsev
Travis Dermott — Igor Ozhiganov
Maple Leafs Goaltending
Garret Sparks
(Frederik Andersen)
That was fun!
HAT TRICK
And thank you for rescuing us from that moribund powerplay
Krejci really going postal this game.
Rrrrrrrrecch
Owwww krejci
yuck.
Jake!! That’s a power forward, right there.
ALL GOALS SHALL BE DUE TO DAVID PASTRNAK!
Never ending Pasta goals!
Everybody needs to carbo load!
That’s a power play goal!!
Wow! Those guys are fun to watch!!
https://twitter.com/mickcolageo/status/1061429124915494918?s=21
Grzelcyk with the fancy moves