It’s been a long road through a dark forest, and we’re by no means out of it as a country or as a planet. But for the first time since the summer, there is honest-to-God Leafs hockey to watch. Let’s roll!
Toronto Maple Leafs
Forwards
Joe Thornton - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Jimmy Vesey - John Tavares - William Nylander
Ilya Mikheyev - Alex Kerfoot - Zach Hyman
Jason Spezza - Alexander Barabanov - Wayne Simmonds
Defence
Morgan Rielly - T.J. Brodie
Jake Muzzin - Justin Holl
Travis Dermott - Zach Bogosian
Goaltenders
Frederik Andersen
Jack Campbell
We’ll finally have a chance to see our fancy new acquisitions in action, and whether that third line—which looks like it might be intended as a shutdown group—is actually used defensively.