Maple Leafs vs Bruins Game 6 starting lineups and other notes

With that being the case, the Maple Leafs will have to continue to have the next-man-up mentality if they want to force a Game 7 in Boston on Saturday night. In their Game 5 win, it wasn’t the big boys who carried. It was Jake McCabe, who scored his first career playoff goal, Matthew Knies, who has 95 games of NHL experience (regular season and playoffs), scoring the overtime winner and rookie goalie Joseph Woll, who made his third career playoff start after being called upon.

Tonight, without Matthews, they’ll need their big boys to be their big boys and their depth scoring to contribute if possible. This is familiar territory for some of the Maple Leafs players after once trailing their best-of-seven series 3-1 against the Bruins in 2018 and ultimately forcing a Game 7 and losing. But that was six years ago. This year’s team has plenty of players who aren’t associated with the past Maple Leafs, and the Game 5 hero, Matthew Knies, is one of them as he looks to take another step in his game and be an essential contributor to this lineup. You can read more about Knies and the other young Maple Leafs in tonight’s Game 6 preview here, by Arun Srinivasan.

Pregame details:

Toronto Maple Leafs’ lineup:

Tyler Bertuzzi – Max Domi – Mitch Marner

Matthew Knies – John Tavares – William Nylander

Nick Robertson – Pontus Holmberg – Calle Jarnkrok

Connor Dewar – David Kampf – Ryan Reaves

Morgan Rielly – Ilya Lyubushkin

Simon Benoit – Jake McCabe

Joel Edmundson – Timothy Liljegren

One lineup note: As mentioned above, Auston Matthews will not be in the lineup tonight for Game 6. However, according to Mark Masters, he was seen on the ice again before the Maple Leafs held their morning skate. So, I guess that is still a good sign, but this whole situation remains weird.

Boston Bruins’ lineup:

Jake DeBrusk – Pavel Zacha – David Pastrnak

Brad Marchand – Charlie Coyle – Morgan Geekie

James van Riemsdyk – Trent Frederic – Justin Brazeau

John Beecher – Jesper Boqvist – Pat Maroon

Mason Lohrei – Charlie McAvoy

Hampus Lindholm – Brandon Carlo

Parker Wotherspoon – Kevin Shattenkirk

Projected goalies:

Joseph Woll (TOR) vs Jeremy Swayman (BOS)

Broadcast:

Sportsnet, 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT

(Projected lineups from dailyfaceoff.com)