Game Thread 33-82 at Toronto vs Maple Leafs

[CoachFrenchy]

Broadcast Info
Puck Drop: 6:00 PM CT
TV / Streaming: CHSN

Blashill confirms Levshunov is scratched tonight in Toronto, specifically
because he was late to the rink for practice yesterday. “He understands we have a standard, and that’s been pretty clear… He’s disappointed. It’s hard when you feel like you didn’t do it on purpose,
and I get it. But you can’t lack on your standard.”

Tyler Bertuzzi — Frank Nazar — André Burakovsky
Nick Lardis — Ryan Greene — Oliver Moore
Teuvo Teräväinen — Jason Dickinson — Ilya Mikheyev
Colton Dach — Dominic Toninato — Ryan Donato

Alex Vlasic — Louis Crevier
Wyatt Kaiser — Matt Grzelcyk
Ethan Del Mastro — Connor Murphy

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthew Knies – Auston Matthews – William Nylander
Nick Robertson – John Tavares – Bobby McMann
Dakota Joshua – Nicolas Roy – Max Domi
Steven Lorentz – Scott Laughton – Easton Cowan

Morgan Reilly – Simon Benoit
Jake McCabe – Troy Stecher
Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Henry Thrun

Joseph Woll
Dennis Hildeby

[boilermaker]

Thanks for keeping the conversation going Frenchy. Let’s hope that 2nd line of Lardis, Greene and Moore meshes together well and gives us a good glimpse of what the future holds. Also, in Bedard’s absence, it’s time for Nazar to step it up along with the veteran cadre of Bertuzzi, Burakovsky, TT, Dickinson, Mikheyev and Donato providing some goal scoring.

Finally, a good opportunity for DelMastro as Lev serves his penance. I hope he has a good game. Maybe if he cements a position, Grzylec or Murphy will become eventual trade bait.

[Assman22]

Where the hell is Dots?!

[Assman22]

Gritty 2nd period and Hawks grinded that out with blue collar defense and hustle. Leafs had possession for long stretches and Hawks kept denying. Knight, Nazar, and Mik were warriors all period. Let’s do it again in the 3rd boys!

[Assman22]

Hawks have to get some chip and chase in their zone going the rest of the way. Too much time in the dzone and neutral ice.

[Assman22]

Brutal finish. Chasing all 3rd period and good teams like that will make you pay. Crevier looking like his old 7th d-man self again. Move your damn feet Louis!

[BetweenTheDots]

Tough loss tonight. As soon as that shot went in from the point i knew they were going to lose this game.

Another penalty call against the Blackhawks with 5 minutes left in the game.

At least the refs are consistent any time the Blackhawks have a lead.

[Haru]

I think Knight is a very good technically sound goalie, but when he makes a miscue, which he rarely does, suddenly his concentration level drops momentarily and his play wavers. After the faceoff following Matthews’ goal the Leafs dumped the puck towards the net, from I believe beyond the blue line, and Knight inexplicably misplayed it by letting it rebound from his pads straight up the center of the ice. Normally I think he would have snared it or at least steered it towards the corner. Not to absolve anything from Crevier, but he probably thought that too. Crevier has to play Joshua hard, as anything can happen. Joshua’s shot was of the nothing to look at variety, but Knight failed to make the save.

I watched the Flames-Sharks game afterward, and a similar thing happened to the Flames’ D. Sharks dumped the puck from beyond the redline, and 2 Flames D-men are closer to the goal line than the oncoming Barclay Goodrow. Both D skated nonchalantly towards the goal line expecting to hear a whistle for icing, but icing was waived off because both defensemen were wide in their lanes and Goodrow raced down the middle, collected the puck first and scored on Wolf, who also looked stunned.

Hopefully the Hawks’young players can learn from these types of moments and not take anything for granted. Just play 60 minutes of good hockey.

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