Two Leafs absent from practice on Monday; Keefe provides updates on each
The NHL's Global Series is taking place in Sweden this year and the 4 teams involved will be the Ottawa Senators, Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota Wild and, of course, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
After their sweep over the weekend against the Calgary Flames on Friday night and the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, the Leafs don't play again until the 17th and the 19th (Friday and Sunday) as they need time to travel and assimilate in Sweden.
Before jetting off, the Maple Leafs had one last practice today, and there were a pair of notable absentees, including David Kampf and John Klingberg:
Auston Matthews was in between Matthew Knies and Mitch Marner, John Tavares had Tyler Bertuzzi and William Nylander on his wings, Max Domi was centering the 3rd line with Nick Robertson and Calle Jarnkrok, and the trio of Bobby McMann, Noah Gregor, and Ryan Reaves completed the quartet of lines.
Morgan Rielly was skating with T.J. Brodie, Mark Giordano with Jake McCabe, and Simon Benoit was paired up with William Lagesson. Conor Timmins was the extra skater.
With so much time in between games, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Leafs withheld Klingberg and Kampf. The former played well on Saturday but was already battling an injury beforehand and the latter took a big hit and "needs some of the swelling to go down in his face from the clean hit to the head that he took." From his comment, it would appear as though Sheldon Keefe wasn't too pleased with the lack of a penalty or supplemental discipline for Dakota Joshua on that one.
Keefe wouldn't provide any details on the injury to Klingberg, but with a few extra days off this week between games, we'll likely see both ready to go in time for Friday's matchup against Detroit.
