GAME DAY REPORT: GAME 33- MAPLE LEAFS @ MINNESOTA WILD
Toronto Maple Leafs (20-11-1) @ Minnesota Wild (16-11-3)
8:00PM EST SNO
Be forewarned. This is a Sportsnet affair so you will likely want to puke listening to either Hughson/Simpson or Romanuk/Millen. Do yourself a favour and stream the game. Stream Fan 590 or TSN 1050 (whichever has the game tonight) via TuneIn Radio. Sync both feeds and voila you have Joey Bones calling your game. Much more enjoyable.
Tonight our mighty Maple leafs take to the ice in Minny to take on the Wild. Looks like a semi fair trade off with the Leafs missing Auston Matthews and the Wild short one Devan Dubnyk.
The matchup stacks two fairly even teams against one another as both teams rank 5th and 6th on the PP and 12th and 13th on the PK.
Toronto has a strong road record to match up with the Wilds strong home game. Both teams have fared well over their last 10 game segment.
Advantages in the matchup in Toronto’s favour will be their slightly higher GF/G, slightly lower GA/G.The Leafs higher Shots/GP combined with Minny’s lower Shots/GP and equally poor to the Leafs SA/GP would also seem to be in the Bud’s favour.
Toronto takes a slight advantage in the dot as well with 51.29% to the Wilds 49.91% FOW%. If you believe in that sort of stuff…
;D
TONIGHTS TALE OF THE TAPE
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
Points: 41
Leafs Road Record: 10-6-1
Last 10: 6-3-1
Streak: 1 L
PP Rank: 5th @ 22.22%
PK Rank: 13th @ 82.0%
Goals For/G: 3.31
Goals Against/G: 2.84
Shots For: 30.34
Shots Against: 34.4
Goal Differential: +16
Face Off Win%: Ranked 9th @ 51.29%
Standings: 2nd in Atlantic
MINNESOTA WILD
Points: 35
Wild Home Record: 9-3-2
Last 10: 7-3-0
Streak: 3 W
PP Rank: 6th @ 21.83%
PK Rank: 12th @ 82.3%
Goals For/G: 2.9
Goals Against/G: 2.9
Shots For: 28.6
Shots Against: 32.06
Goal Differential: +1
Face Off Win%: Ranked 18th @ 49.91%
Standings: Final Wild Card Spot
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (Projected)
Leo Komarov — Nazem Kadri — William Nylander
JVR — Tyler Bozak — Mitch Marner
Zach Hyman — Patrick Marleau — Connor Brown
Matt Martin — Dominic Moore — Josh Leivo
Morgan Rielly — Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner — Nikita Zaitsev
Andreas Borgman — Roman Polak
Frederik Andersen
Scratches: Bon, Connor Carrick, Kasperi Kapanen
Injured: Awesome Matthews, Nikita Soshnikov
MINNESOTA WILD (Projected)
Jason Zucker — Mikko Koivu — Charlie Coyle
Nino Niederreiter — Eric Staal — Mikael Granlund
Daniel Winnik — Joel Eriksson Ek — Chris Stewart
Tyler Ennis — Matt Cullen — Zack Mitchell
Ryan Suter — Matt Dumba
Jonas Brodin — Ryan Murphy
Gustav Olofsson — Nate Prosser
Alex Stalock
Scratches: Gustav Oloffsson, Marcus Foligno
Injured: Zach Parise (back), Jared Spurgeon (groin), Devan Dubnyk (lower-body)
Morning skate with the Coach
GAME ON!!!! #GOLEAFSGO
