Last night marked the first time we got to see Auston Matthews in the 2019 season and he looked just as good as always. Matthews was playing with Tyler Ennis and Patrick Marleau. The line up was definitely missing William Nylander playing next to Matthews (in my opinion). Ennis has a good game but seemed to be gripping the stick a little tight and passing a little too much at the beginning of the game.
Speaking of passing:
I think I speak for all leafs fans when I say that I will not get tired of watching Marleau and Matthews play tic tac toe every night.
Jeremy Bracco doesn’t look like he has a spot on the big league roster quite yet since he was a healthy scratch for some regular season and most play off games for the Marlies last year but he was able to take a nice pass from Calle Rosen in the slot and opened up Mike McKennas legs for the 2-0 goal. He made the goal look easy but it is tough to make a goalie open up that easily.
Ennis found his groove later in the game and was able to score a beauty bar down goal to allow the leafs to maintain a two goal lead after the Sens scored a power play goal. He was also able to add a second goal on an empty netter in the dying seconds of the game.
We also got to see the defence pairing of Timothy Liljegren and Rasmus Sandin and I thought both players looked pretty good. Sandin made some nice plays in his own zone to be able to help the leafs break out easily and Liljegren seems like he could easily step into the line up at some point this year or 2019-2020.
The leafs face off against the Buffalo Sabres tomorrow night at 7:30 with our look at Buffalos first round pick Rasmus Dahlin.
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