GDT: Toronto Maple Leafs Versus Boston Bruins Game Two (7:00 PM EST - SN, CBC)

[GlitchMarner]

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Projected line-ups (according to nbcsportsboston):​

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Boston Bruins (1-0)​

Forwards

Danton Heinen--Pavel Zacha--David Pastrnak

Brad Marchand--Charlie Coyle--Jake DeBrusk

Jakub Lauko--Morgan Geekie--Trent Frederic

John Beecher--Jesper Boqvist--Pat Maroon

Defensemen

Hampus Lindholm--Charlie McAvoy

Matt Grzelcyk--Brandon Carlo

Kevin Shattenkirk--Andrew Peeke

Goalies

Jeremy Swayman/Linus Ullmark (TBD)

Toronto Maple Leafs (0-1)​

Forwards

Tyler Bertuzzi--Auston Matthews--Max Domi

Matthew Knies--John Tavares--Mitch Marner

Nick Robertson--Pontus Holmberg--Calle Jarnkrok

Connor Dewar--David Kampf--Ryan Reaves

Defensemen

Morgan Rielly-Ilya Lyubushkin

Simon Benoit--Jake McCabe

Joel Edmundson--Timothy Liljegren

Goalies

Ilya Samsonov

Joseph Woll

Regular season rankings:

Wins:

BOS: 47 (T9th)
TOR: 46 (11th)

Points:

BOS: 109 (T-6th)
TOR: 102 (10th)

Goals Scored:

TOR: 298 (second)
BOS: 263 (T-13th)

Goals Against:

BOS: 221 (T-5th)
TOR: 261 (21st)

Power Play:

TOR: 24% (7th)
BOS: 22.2% (14th)

Penalty Kill:

BOS: 82.5% (T-6th)
TOR: 76.9% (T-22nd)

Shots For Per Game:

TOR: 32.6 (7th)
BOS: 29.3 (T-21st)

Shots Against Per Game:

TOR: 29.8 (T-16th)
BOS: 30.5 (T-21st)

Shot Attempts Percentage (SAT):

TOR: 50.8% (15th)
BOS: 47.6 (24th)

SAT% Close:

TOR: 50.3% (T-17th)
BOS: 48.4% (21st)

Unblocked Shots Percentage (USAT):

TOR: 51.4% (T-10th)
BOS: 47.5% (T-24th)

USAT Close%:

TOR: 50.9% (13th)
BOS: 48% (23rd)





As you can see, since the Maple Leafs have the advantage in most of these statistical categories, they are clearly destined to win and BOS can be expected to crumble like TOR has done when having poor underlying numbers in the past.

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[RomanianLeafs]

Hopefully they dont ruin my celebration because my soccer team Inter Milano just won the title

 

[Aashir Mallik]

Lose this and the mountain might become too steep to climb

This place will be more toxic than nuclear radiation if we do..

Matthews just score, Marner please do something other than standing at the point like a dman. Tavares…stop trying to go 1 on 2 and killing plays.

Need some stops, need to limit the pks and chances and need some goals

 

[Cleetus]

Dang second straight without Nylander

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Alright Leafs do what you do best this time of year; ruin my day.

 

[Lauro]

Hopefully they dont ruin my celebration because my soccer team Inter Milano just won the title

Congrats to Inter, my favourite Italian team since the days of Matthäus, Brehme and Klinsmann ;-)

 

[Revolt]

Just win boys. Simple, right?

 

[HockeyVirus]

Lose this and the mountain might become too steep to climb

This place will be more toxic than nuclear radiation if we do..

Matthews just score, Marner please do something other than standing at the point like a dman. Tavares…stop trying to go 1 on 2 and killing plays.

Need some stops, need to limit the pks and chances and need some goals

Matthews: Stop trying to do too much and just play a simple game and rip it in the net when you get shots

Marner: Stop trying to force passes through 5 people to Matthews everytime you get the puck or go 1 on 5 when your linemates are not Matthews

Nylander: Just exist in the game

Tavares: Just have fun buddy

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

I expect to be disappointed, will be happy if I'm not.

 

[TorMapleJays]

Ullmark tonight ..?- Hazyee B

 

[Magic Man]

I feel good about them flipping to Ullmark if they do. Swayman seems to have their number.

 

[On-the-Fly]

I want to see another clapper from the top of the circle from El Capitan on a partial break! That may have been my favorite part of last game.

 

[supermann_98]

Go leafs go! I don’t have a whole hell of a lotta faith in you right now but still … Go leafs go!

 

[PanniniClaus]

Ullmark tonight ..?- Hazyee B

That's the word... but who knows. Maybe Keefe will change goalies on the fly tonight.. throw a different look in.

 

[Confucius]

Lose this and the mountain might become too steep to climb

This place will be more toxic than nuclear radiation if we do..

Matthews just score, Marner please do something other than standing at the point like a dman. Tavares…stop trying to go 1 on 2 and killing plays.

Need some stops, need to limit the pks and chances and need some goals

To those where it’s Cup or Nothing, this place will indeed be toxic. For the few who just take it game by game and enjoy each game it will be a downer but there is always next game. Hoping for a win tonight but don’t go overboard we aren’t winning this series.

 

[LeafsFan89]

Lose this and the mountain might become too steep to climb

This place will be more toxic than nuclear radiation if we do..

I mean...

• The current team mentality does not jive with the majority of fans on this board (i.e., most want blue collar type mindset);
• The track record of being utterly humiliated in the most epic ways possible throughout the Matthews era in regular seasons or throughout all playoff series to date (except maybe 1);
• This all preceded by the failures of the Nonis era, the Burke era, JFJ era, Fletcher era, and if you're still alive from not having a heart attack or aneurysm from this team at this point, whatever abject failures before this.

Gonna be more of a cesspool than peak 4chan lol.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

Congrats to Inter, my favourite Italian team since the days of Matthäus, Brehme and Klinsmann ;-)

And their amazing 80s haircuts

 

[LeafsNation149]

too many pessimists, leafs win this easily lets go

 

[Racer88]

This is a must win

 

[Rare Jewel]

Hopefully they dont ruin my celebration because my soccer team Inter Milano just won the title

Anyone but Juve.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Controlled aggression and better defensive coverage are the main things I’ll be watching for tonight.
Put pucks on net and pay the price to be in position for deflections, screens and banging in any rebounds they give up. Pretty hockey season is over, get in there and get some ugly ones.

GLG

 

[stickty111]

This game is kind of giving me a 2018 game 2 feel where we just get blown out early. Obviously I want to be wrong.

 

[kevsh]

Hopefully they dont ruin my celebration because my soccer team Inter Milano just won the title

I wonder what it's like supporting a team that wins a title.

 

[JKG33]

Starting Samsonov should be a fireable offense for Keefe, but then again there's been too many of those to count with him as coach

 

[1specter]

The age old question of does Marner go between the dots tonight remains.