Leafs shuffle lineup with Auston Matthews out due to injury.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have shown their new lineup for Saturday night's game without Auston Matthews.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without the services of captain Auston Matthews on Saturday night when they take on the New York Islanders, with the Leafs officially confirming earlier today that Matthews is once again dealing with an undisclosed injury.
This will of course necessitate some lineup changes from head coach Craig Berube and we now know what form those changes will take with Matthews out of the lineup. Replacing Matthews on the team's top line will be veteran forward David Kampf, although no reasonable person will expect Kampf to serve as a 1 to 1 replacement for Matthews.
Joseph Woll will once again get the start and he will once again be backed up by Dennis Hildeby with goaltender Anthony Stolarz also currently dealing with an injury. This leaves the Maple Leafs with some pretty significant absences on their roster due to injury and it will be interesting to see how the team responds against the Islanders.
Here is a look at the full Maple Leafs lineup for tonight's game based on warmups:
Knies-Kampf-Marner
Pacioretty-Tavares-Nylander
McMann-Domi-Robertson
Lorentz-Dewar-Reaves
Rielly-Timmins
Ekman-Larsson—Tanev
Benoit-McCabe
Woll
Hildeby