Welcome to 2022! May it be better than 2021.
I feel like I said something very similar exactly one year ago...
The Maple Leafs are back in action against the Ottawa Senators tonight after an extra long holiday break due to games postponed both because many members of the team contracted COVID on their road trip in Western Canada.
From yesterday’s practice lines, it looks like the COVID situation is now mostly resolved.
Players practicing Dec. 31:
Forwards: Bunting, Engvall, Kämpf, Kaše, Kerfoot, Marner, Matthews, Mikheyev, Nylander, Ritchie, Simmonds, Spezza, Tavares
Defencemen: Biega, Brodie, Dermott, Holl, Kivihalme, Muzzin, Rielly, Sandin
Goalies: Campbell, Hutchinson, Mrázek— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) December 31, 2021It’s great to see Marner back, and Ilya Mikheyev too, whom you may have missed actually returned from his annual major injury on December 14 and played in the one game against the Oilers before the Leafs were shut down.