Injury Report: #34 Auston Matthews - Cleared to play!

[56 Years No Cup]

Is he playing against Sharks or not? If he is playing then I'm going to game.

No. Give me your tickets!

 

[KilPhessel]

That's also my reaction when I watch GOAT and think, that guy was a 1st round pick

Could have been worse and he could have been a complete bust. At least we drafted a serviceable nhler, albeit borderline.. still how many teams have complete busts in the 20-30 range every year?

 

[BodaciousBeefBazooka]

Never gonna happen but the obvious choice to me would be Brown coming out. He literally does nothing.

What does Brown even do? He doesnt generate anything. He isnt even NHL calibre yet he just seems to get by doing God knows what.

 

[MapleLeafs9]

What does Brown even do? He doesnt generate anything. He isnt even NHL calibre yet he just seems to get by doing God knows what.

"You guys can't even begin to understand how important Brownie is to our lineup. The reason guy's like Tavares, Marner, Kadri are able to score? It's because of guys like him." - Babcock, probably.

 

[authentic]

What does Brown even do? He doesnt generate anything. He isnt even NHL calibre yet he just seems to get by doing God knows what.

He's become the most useless player on the team.

 

[hockeynorth]

He's become the most useless player on the team.

I think that's more a sign of our depth, though his PK abilities don't make him the least useful. The habs would probably try him at 1C

 

[crump]

On a team with arguably 2 or 3 league elite players it’s easy to look at a third liner and say he’s useless. Brown is having a down year scoring wise (at this rate he’ll probably end up with 10-12 goals) but he plays the PK, has the fewest giveaways on the team, has 62% defensive zone starts. He’ll smash his hits stat record this season. Scoring 8 points and maintaining an even corsi while doing all that sounds like a decent third liner to me.

 

[BodaciousBeefBazooka]

"You guys can't even begin to understand how important Brownie is to our lineup. The reason guy's like Tavares, Marner, Kadri are able to score? It's because of guys like him." - Babcock, probably.

So if Babcock gets a players seal of approval life is good. Close thread.

 

[Le Cobra]

So most likely Nylander would join our roster first and then Matthews later

 

[Marshy]

 

[IBeL34f]

Woooooo!!!

 

[ShaneFalco]

Nice and I imagine we may have seen the last of the Goat

 

[X66]

My guess is lines will be

Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Johnsson-Matthews-Brown
Marleau-Kadri-Kap
Leivo-Lindholm-Ennis

PRAYING Ennis doesn't get put back with Matthews, and to a lesser degree that Marleau gets put with him.

 

[Jozay]

Nice.

 

[La Masse]

The real goat takes the place of the goat lol

 

[dangomon]

My guess is lines will be

Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Johnsson-Matthews-Brown
Marleau-Kadri-Kap
Leivo-Lindholm-Ennis

PRAYING Ennis doesn't get put back with Matthews, and to a lesser degree that Marleau gets put with him.

Kap and Matthews looked really good together prior to his injury so they may get another shot, however the Marleau-Kadri-Kap line has also looked good to this point, so I'm not convinced I'd break them up.

 

[18leafsfan18]

Maple Leafs' Matthews will play vs. Sharks after 14-game absence

Not sure if already confirmed but I just received this update on my phone.

Edit: Just saw above, sorry for the repeat

 

[JT AM da real deal]

Thanks for update. Cant wait for puck drop.

 

[tom leafers]

The boys fared quite well with out him, time to dominate with him!

 

[lovemyleafs]

My guess is lines will be

Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Johnsson-Matthews-Brown
Marleau-Kadri-Kap
Leivo-Lindholm-Ennis

PRAYING Ennis doesn't get put back with Matthews, and to a lesser degree that Marleau gets put with him.

The day I see Brown on Matthews’ wing is the day I kill myself

 

[X66]

The day I see Brown on Matthews’ wing is the day I kill myself

You've seen in plenty of times the last two years, including last years playoffs.

 

[BorntoLose]

Today is a good day!

 

[34]

Yeah baby

 

[Cleetus]

The Big Cactus Returns! what a day!

 

[deletethis]

The reason for the widespread Connor Brown hate is the same reason why it's easy to shear a flock of sheep.