Sheldon Keefe on spreading Matthews, Marner, and Nylander onto three separate lines: “We know Mitch with Auston works… We can go to that at any time… This spreads out our scoring depth really well”

Leafs lines at practice

Bertuzzi – Matthews – Domi
McMann – Tavares – Marner
Knies – Holmberg – Nylander
Dewar – Kampf – Reaves
Gregor, Robertson

Rielly – Lyubushkin
Benoit – McCabe
Giordano – Brodie
Edmundson – Timmins

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— Mark Masters (@markhmasters) April 5, 2024

With Mitch Marner returning, what made you want to go with this spread-out look?

Keefe: The first thing is that we’re happy with how the line of Bertuzzi and Domi has gone with Matthews. There is that. It opens up some opportunities to look at some different things there.