Projected line combinations for the Leafs ahead of tonight's game

Earlier this morning, the Maple Leafs unveiled the roster for tonight's home game against Montreal. The announcement was met with a great deal of excitement as tonight's lineup contains most of what is expected to be the NHL roster come October 11th, when the Leafs open their season against the these same Canadiens.

Those who purchased tickets for tonight's pre-season game at Scotiabank Arena really lucked out. As far as how the line combinations should appear, the line rushes from Monday morning's practice indicate that we're likely to see these forward line combos, at least to start the game:

Bertuzzi-Matthews-Marner
Knies-Tavares-Lafferty
Domi-Nylander-Robertson
Gregor-Kampf-Reaves

With John Klingberg and Conor Timmins sidelined due to injury, many were surprised to see that Mark Giordano was not on tonight's game roster, with the Leafs instead opting to dress Simon Benoit and Mikko Kokkonen. Here's how tonight's D pairs are expected to look:

Rielly-Brodie
McCabe-Liljegren
Benoit-Kokkonen

After Martin Jones and Keith Petruzzelli manned the net on Saturday, it appears as though Ilya Samsonov is poised to start his second game of the pre-season tonight. If all goes well, I'd image that he'll get the full game to get a feel for playing the full 60 minutes before the pre-season concludes later this week. Petruzzelli is expected to suit up as the defacto #2.

Samsonov
Petruzzelli

I'm excited for this one. To be honest, I was a little surprised to see that Fraser Minten was not on tonight's game roster after the clinic he put on against the Habs on Friday and Saturday, but if he isn't sent back to Kamloops today, I'm sure we'll see him in one of the final 2 pre-season games later this week.

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