With Vegas first up on the menu, the Leafs face a tough schedule of teams better than Chicago and Detroit over the next few weeks. This is a very important run of games for a team sitting at a disappointing .500 win percentage today. Vegas is also at a very disappointing to them .500, so neither team has begun the way they expected to. Vegas was widely regarded to be the number one choice to win the Pacific division. And they still are.
Them
The Vegas Golden Knights are missing:
- Max Pacioretty
- Alex Tuch
- Mark Stone
- Nolan Patrick
- Zach Whitecloud
- Mattias Janmark
- William Karlsson
Their projected lineup from Knights on Ice is:
William Carrier — Chandler Stephenson — Peyton Krebs
Jonathan Marchessault — Nicolas Roy — Reilly Smith
Evgenii Dadonov — Michael Amadio — Keegan Kolesar
Brett Howden — Jake Leschyshyn — Jonas Røndbjerg
Nicolas Hague — Alex Pietrangelo
Alec Martinez — Shea Theodore
Brayden McNabb — Dylan Coghlan
Robin Lehner
Yes, that is the Leafs latest 13th forward stolen on waivers by another team on their third line.