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Oh baby, the Maple Leafs family is growing and it means the lineup will be changing Saturday in Denver.
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John Tavares went home after Thursday’s 4-3 shootout loss in Las Vegas to be with wife Aryne and the birth of their fourth child, Tucker. He’ll be unavailable to play the Avalanche on the second game of Toronto’s three-game sojourn through the U.S. Southwest, which concludes Tuesday in Utah.
Friday morning, the team called up winger Miles Wood from the Toronto Marlies. The 31-year-old Wood, acquired in the Kirill Marchenko trade on the eve of the regular season, was to meet the club in Colorado.
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The Leafs already are carrying an extra forward, winger Zack MacEwan. The team had good news on the injury front at Friday’s practice in Vegas when defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson was present after leaving Thursday’s game with a possible head injury late in regulation.
Where has Wood played recently?
Wood, the son of former Leaf Randy Wood, played 54 games for Columbus last season, traded there with Charlie Coyle by the Colorado Avalanche, where he spent a productive 2022-23 season after signing a six-year, $15-million US contract.
Yet to play for the Marlies, Wood’s nearly 600 NHL games had not included any in the minors since 2016-17, when he broke in as a fourth-round pick of the New Jersey Devils out of Boston College.
The 6-foot-2, left shooting Buffalo, N.Y., native has 99 goals and 97 assists in his NHL career.
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