Sheldon Keefe on Easton Cowan & Fraser Minten making the Team Canada World Junior selection camp roster: “I don’t know if they were overly popular picks at the time, but they’ve just worked… They’re absolute competitors”

#Leafs lines during practice Dec. 6/23

Knies-Matthews-Nylander
Bertuzzi-Tavares-Marner
Robertson-Domi-Jarnkrok
Gregor-Kampf-Reaves
McMann

Rielly-Brodie
Lagesson-McCabe
Benoit-Timmins
Lajoie

Woll, Samsonov, Jones@BodogCA

— David Alter (@dalter) December 6, 2023

At one point in the practice, you stopped practice and were rather animated. Is that part of wanting to get on with the games after a bunch of practice time?

Keefe: Part of that is that there are positives and negatives to not playing. In practice time, you work on some things, but the negative piece of it is that you are not necessarily game-ready.