Your game in 10:
1. Let’s start with a note about the line combinations, which featured some interesting wrinkles from Sheldon Keefe. In this space, we’ve been hyper-critical of the head coach’s unwillingness to reward or empower non-core players with more minutes as part of spreading out his talent across three-plus lines at the forward position.
Today, we saw the red-hot Bobby McMann play with John Tavares and Nick Robertson while receiving a secondary power-play shift and 6-on-5 time late in the game. Max Domi — whose game has been coming on strong of late — skated alongside William Nylander and Tyler Bertuzzi, and the line actually played about the same amount as the top line at five-on-five.