Lines Without Matthews and Tavares

Created by: iBeLeaf

Team: 2022-23 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 8, 2023

Published: Mar. 9, 2023

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If Matthews and Tavares are not feeling 100% they should rest for a few games, especially Matthews who is definitely playing hurt. A fully healthy Auston Matthews is more important than home ice against Tampa (it's not like home ice advantage helped the Leafs last year anyway!)

It would also test the Leafs depth at centre if their top 3 centres are all out for an extended period, similar to when the Leafs D corps was decimated earlier in the season.

Note 1: Kerfoot should NOT be 1LW instead of Bunting or even Jarnkrok, but Keefe loves Kerfoot on the top line for some reason!

Note 2: With the new D additions, both Rielly and Holl should be sitting in the press box! Holl scratched for obvious reasons and Rielly to send a message that he needs to be much better to be worth his new contract! But Keefe doesn't have the balls to healthy scratch Rielly and is in love with Holl so he will go 11F/7D just to keep both of these turnover machines in the line-up.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$82,257,913	$212,500	$0	$242,087

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Kämpf, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 C UFA - 1	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 3
Järnkrok, Calle $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Lafferty, Sam $1,150,000$1,150,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 2	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 2
Bunting, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 1		Steeves, Alex $834,167$834,167 LW, RW RFA - 2
Aston-Reese, Zach $840,630$840,630 LW, RW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, RW UFA - 1
	Holmberg, Pontus $827,500$827,500 C, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 2	Murray, Matt $4,687,500$4,687,500 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Rielly, Morgan $7,500,000$7,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Liljegren, Timothy $1,400,000$1,400,000 RD RFA - 2	Samsonov, Ilya $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Giordano, Mark $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 2	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Gustafsson, Erik $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 2	Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NTC UFA - 2
Schenn, Luke $850,000$850,000 RD UFA - 1	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 3	O'Reilly, Ryan $1,875,000$1,875,000 C UFA - 1
Timmins, Conor $850,000$850,000 RD RFA - 1		Robertson, Nicholas $796,667$796,667 LW, RW RFA - 2
		Mete, Victor $750,000$750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

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Mar. 9, 2023 at 2:55 p.m.

ToneCapone420

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David Kampf at 1C made me throw up in my mouth

Mar. 9, 2023 at 2:57 p.m.

iBeLeaf

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Lol

Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:12 p.m.

iBeLeaf

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Quoting: ToneCapone420

David Kampf at 1C made me throw up in my mouth

I know it's not ideal but Kampf is really good defensively and has shown chemistry with Marner on the PK, so I think they could be an effective shutdown pair against another team's top line. Kerfoot is never scoring again so might as well put him in a defensive shutdown role as well.

Nylander, Jarnkrok and Lafferty seemed to work well together last game and managed to score an even strength goal against a top team in NJ. I think it's worth letting them get a few more games together to keep building chemistry.

Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:19 p.m.

IconicHawk

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Quoting: ToneCapone420

David Kampf at 1C made me throw up in my mouth

First time?

Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:23 p.m.

iBeLeaf

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Anyway this is more of a doomsday scenario since one of JT or Matthews will definitely play if they are less hurt than the other one. Let's say it's JT in and Matthews rests to recover from his latest nagging injury.

The lines vs. Edmonton on Saturday could be:

Kerfoot - Tavares - Marner
Jarnkrok - Lafferty - Nylander
Bunting - Kampf - Acciari
AstonReese - Holmberg - Steeves

McCabe - Brodie
Rielly - Liljegren
Gio - Holl

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