They dress together, head to games together, and now we’ll get to see them play together.
Mike Babcock took out the blue-and-white themed blender Monday at practice. The blueline was left the same with Jake Gardiner still sitting out with his back spasms. Andreas Johnsson wasn’t present as well as the hit he took from Niklas Hjalmarsson resulted in a concussion.
Justin Holl played the role of forward to fill in, but that wasn’t the only change with Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner getting paired up on the “second” line.