10/18/2018 – Pittsburgh Penguins vs Toronto Maple Leafs

 

Pittsburgh Penguins (2-1-2 6pts) v, Toronto Maple Leafs (6-1-0 12pts)

 

Lineups:

Toronto:

Kasperi Kapanen – Auston Matthews – Patrick Marleau
Mitch Marner – John Tavares– Zach Hyman
Pars Lindholm – Nazem Kadri – Connor Brown
Andreas Johnsson – Frederik Gauthier – Josh Leivo

Morgan Rielly  – Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner – Nikita Zaitsev
Travis Dermott – Igor Ozhiganov

Frederik Andersen
Garrett Sparks

Scratched: Tyler Ennis, Justin Holl & Martin Marincin

Injuries: Nathan Horton (Back)

Suspension: None

 

Pittsburgh:

Jake Guentzel – Sidney Crosby – Derick Brassard

Carl Hagelin – Evgeni Malkin – Phil Kessel

Patric Hornqvist– Riley Sheahan – Bryan Rust

Dominik Simon – Matt Cullen – Daniel Sprong

Brian Dumoulin – Kris Letang

Jack Johnson – Jamie Oleksiuk

Olli Maatta – Juuso Riikola

Matt Murray

Casey DeSmith

Scratched: None

Injuries: Justin Schultz (LTIR)

Suspension: None
Gameday:

 

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1053034389133680640

https://twitter.com/penguins/status/1053051961774354433

 

First Period:

Leafs Penalty – 11:36 – Mitch Marner, 2 mins for Too Many Men

Penguins PPG Goal – 11:42– Evgeni Malkin (2) from Kris Letang (4) and Sidney Crosby (5)

 

End of 1st – TML – 0         PIT – 1

Shots              9                     17

Faceoffs     8/18                10/18

Hits               5                      10

PP                 0/0                   1/1

 

Analysis:

Leafs played well early but let the Pens offence in the zone for prolonged periods of time. The Pens play an aggressive offence so the puck needs to be moved quick and the Leafs defence struggled with that a bit.

 

Need to Do:

Quick passes, more offensive zone time. Draw penalties.

 

https://twitter.com/penguins/status/1053073892707876864

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1053073926677393408

 

Second Period:

Leafs Penalty – 08:21 – Zach Hyman, 2 mins for Tripping

Penguins Penalty – 09:44 – Matt Murray, 2 mins for Delay of Game

 

End of 2nd – TML – 0          PIT – 1

Shots              22                    28

Faceoffs       21/38             17/38

Hits               13                     24

PP                 0/1                    1/2

 

Analysis:

Leafs took over this period, but Matt Murray has played unbelieveable. Leafs need to get more traffic in front of the goaltender, right now Matt Murray is seeing everything.

 

Need to Do:

Get more bodies in front of the net. Matt Murray is seeing everything and playing picture perfect tonight.

 

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1053084148762521601

 

Third Period:

Penguins Goal – 17:53– Evgeni Malkin (3) Empty Net,  Unassisted

Penguins Goal – 18:52– Kris Letang (4) Empty Net,  from Evgeni Malkin (9) and Bryan Rust (1)

 

End of 3rd – TML – 0         PIT – 3

Shots              38                   39

Faceoffs     31/56                25/56

Hits               21                     30

PP                 0/1                    1/2

 

Analysis:

The Leafs played a strong game ran into a hot goalie, made one mistake on the powerplay and paid for it. Frederik Andersen played unbelievable at the other end. Leafs just need to go back and remember they didn’t lose this because of any lack of effort.

 

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1052031679542382593

 

Next Up:

St.Louis (1-3-2 4pts) at Toronto (6-2-0 12pts)

Pittsburgh (3-1-2 8pts) at Edmonton (2-2-0 4pts)

 

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