Tonight’s game marks the beginning of the payback for all those skipped games earlier in the season. Two more games are packed into the start of the week before the All-Star Break which gives the Leafs five days off. Then shit gets real with games every two to three days.
That’s likely why we’re seeing Petr Mrázek in net tonight. The plan was to rotate between the goalies all season, but injuries make a mockery of most hockey plans. Expect this sort of rotation to continue as long as it can.
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I’ve begun to bore myself with how much I hate these new lines, and how much the lesser players end up playing, but the Ducks and the Red Wings are good teams to experiment against.