Maple Leafs’ Line Combinations & Pairings for Blues’ Game Tonight

As David Alter reported in The Daily Face-Off this morning, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ line combinations and defensive pairings for the game tonight against the St. Louis Blues are the following.

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Forward Units

LW	C	RW
Michael Bunting	Auston Matthews	Mitch Marner
Alexander Kerfoot	John Tavares	William Nylander
Ilya Mikheyev	David Kampf	Pierre Engvall
Kyle Clifford	Jason Spezza	Wayne Simmonds

Notes: With both Nick Ritchie and Ondrej Kase out, the team’s forward lines look a bit different that they’ve been. Mitch Marner jumps back into his old spot on the first line with center Auston Matthews and left-winger Michael Bunting.

Pierre Engvall comes back on the right of center David Kampf and left-winger Ilya Mikheyev. The third line promises to have an offensive edge to it as well as be vigorous on the penalty kill.

Defensive Pairings

1st Powerplay Unit
John Tavares	William Nylander	Auston Matthews

Mitch Marner

Morgan Rielly

Notes: Marner takes his place, as usual, on the first-unit powerplay.

2nd Powerplay Unit
Wayne Simmonds	Michael Bunting	Jason Spezza

Ilya Mikheyev

Rasmus Sandin

Notes: Mikheyev will continue to get time on the second-unit powerplay

1st Penalty Kill Unit
David Kampf	Mitch Marner	Jake Muzzin	T.J. Brodie

Notes: Marner jumps back into his usual spot on the penalty kill. He’s valuable there.

2nd Penalty Kill Unit
Alexander Kerfoot	Ilya Mikheyev	Morgan Rielly	Timothy Liljegren

Notes: It’s nice to see Liljegren and Morgan Rielly on the penalty kill.

Goalies
Jack Campbell

Notes: Newly-named NHL All-Star Jack Campbell will start in goal again tonight.

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