Friday practice saw a new set of forward lines and defense pairs as Sheldon Keefe has shuffled the groupings around. Let’s jump right in and then talk about what it all means.
New-look Leafs lines and D:
Bunting — Matthews — Marner
Robertson — Tavares — Nylander
Mikheyev — Kampf — Engvall/Kase
Kerfoot — Spezza — Simmonds
Rielly — Liljegren
Brodie — Holl
Dermott — Lyubushkin
*Rasmus Sandin is not practising— Jonas Siegel (@jonassiegel) March 4, 2022Nick Robertson
First off, Nick Robertson has moved up to the second line after trialling the kid with Tavares and Nylander for 3:22 in the last loss to Buffalo.