MAPLE LEAFS (23-16-7) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (22-11-12)<\/p>\n
9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, TSN4<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs projected lineup<\/p>\n
Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Max Domi<\/p>\n
Matias Maccelli — John Tavares — William Nylander<\/p>\n
Easton Cowan — Nicolas Roy — Nicholas Robertson<\/p>\n
Bobby McMann — Scott Laughton — Steven Lorentz<\/p>\n
Morgan Rielly — Brandon Carlo<\/p>\n
Jake McCabe — Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/p>\n
Simon Benoit — Troy Stecher<\/p>\n
Joseph Woll<\/p>\n
Dennis Hildeby<\/p>\n
Scratched: Matt Benning, Calle Jarnkrok, Philippe Myers<\/p>\n
Injured: Anthony Stolarz (upper body), Chris Tanev (groin), Dakota Joshua (kidney)<\/p>\n
Golden Knights projected lineup<\/p>\n
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone<\/p>\n
Reilly Smith — Mitch Marner — Pavel Dorofeyev<\/p>\n
Alexander Holtz — Tomas Hertl — Keegan Kolesar<\/p>\n
Cole Reinhardt — Colton Sissons — Branden Bowman<\/p>\n
Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud<\/p>\n
Jeremy Lauzon — Shea Theodore<\/p>\n
Ben Hutton \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Adin Hill<\/p>\n
Akira Schmid<\/p>\n
Scratched: Carl Lindbom<\/p>\n
Injured: Carter Hart (lower body), Brett Howden (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Brayden McNabb (upper body), Brandon Saad (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Knies did not participate in the morning skate for maintenance day, but is expected to play. \u2026 Robertson returns to the lineup after missing a 6-1 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday with a lower-body injury. … Roy, a forward, will play his first game against the Golden Knights after being traded July 1. \u2026 Vegas did not hold a morning skate following a 3-2 overtime win at the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. … Marner will face Toronto for the first time after playing his first nine NHL seasons with the Maple Leafs. … Hill could return and start after missing 38 games with a lower-body injury; if he does not, Lindbom likely would start after Schmid made 22 saves Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAPLE LEAFS (23-16-7) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (22-11-12) 9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, TSN4 Maple Leafs projected lineup Matthew Knies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-415745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}