It looks like the Toronto Maple Leafs are making a change to the team’s first line.
The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t had a terrible start, but it could be much worse if Ilya Samsonov wasn’t standing on his head every night. The netminder has been playing unbelievable in five starts and the team probably would have lost 8-1, not 3-1, on Monday night against Vegas if it wasn’t for his solid performance.
In seven games, the Leafs first line has been on the ice for four goals for and three against 5v5. Despite numbers that are similar, and in some cases better, than he was posting last year, Auston Matthews hasn’t scored, other than on a single tip-in.