Sheldon Keefe on splitting up Matthews and Marner: “There’s been great reluctance on my part to make a change to the Bertuzzi – Tavares – Nylander group, but the time is right”

Lines at Leafs practice

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

Rielly – Brodie
Giordano – McCabe
Benoit – Timmins
Lagesson

Samsonov & Woll

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Why was now the time to split up Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner onto different lines?

Keefe: We are coming off of four games in a row on the road here now. We are coming back home. It is a chance to kind of reset.