This is how the banged-up #leafs blue-line will start tonight:
Dermott-Holl
Marincin-Barrie
Sandin-Ceci
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) January 14, 2020
While we’ve seen Liljegren come up before as an extra body, there is a possibility he enters the lineup for his NHL debut this week in wake of the injury to Morgan Rielly depending on how the pairings fare tonight. Liljegren has been a regular on the penalty kill in addition to playing major matchup minutes for the Marlies, and he would give the Leafs a pairing option next to Rasmus Sandin that Sheldon Keefe is familiar with, one that has shown natural chemistry together at the AHL level in the recent past.