According to Chris Johnston, Auston Matthews, William Nylander, Mitch Marner, Milan Michalek, James van Riemsdyk, Nazem Kadri, Leo Komarov, Matt Martin will all feature among the forwards, with the lines divided up something like this:
Projected #leafs lines:
Komarov-Kadri-Michalek
JVR-Bozak-Marner
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander
Martin-Gauthier/Laich-Brown— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) October 2, 2016
The forward pairs we spoke about in our training camp preview are all present here: Kadri – Komarov, JVR-Bozak, Matthews-Nylander, Martin-Laich.
It’s no guarantee that Frederik Gauthier will play his third game in a row tonight, but if he does it would be a sign that Leafs brass is looking at him as in the “maybe NHL-ready” category.