Maple Leafs And Red Wings Wrap Up Season Series

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March 24, 2018 (3:09 PM)

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"Toronto Maple Leafs 95 pts (44-23-7)
vs
Detroit Red Wings 65 pts (27-36-11)
7 p.m. ET
Air Canada Centre � Toronto, ON
TV: CBC
Radio: TSN 1050 AM

Season Series/Schedule
Date Game GWG
10/18 DET 3 @ TOR 6 Connor Brown
10/15 TOR 1 @ DET 3 Trevor Daley
2/18 TOR 3 @ DET 2 Auston Matthews
3/24 DET @ TOR

Team Leaders
Maple Leafs Red Wings
Mitch Marner, 63 Points Dylan Larkin, 53
James van Riemsdyk, 34 Goals Anthony Mantha, 23
Mitch Marner, 43 Assists Dylan Larkin, 42

The Toronto Maple Leafs have themselves in a pretty good position heading into the playoffs. They play six of their final eight games on home and six of those games are against teams currently out of a playoff spot. This stretch begins with the fourth and final meeting against the Detroit Red Wings tonight.
The Leafs are 7-2-1 in their last 10 games versus the Wings, including wins in two of their three games this season. They have had a balanced attack against Detroit this season as they have scored 10 goals against them, but Auston Matthews is the only player with more than one.
Frederik Andersen will make his first start of the season against he Red Wings tonight. Curtis McElhinney had started the previous three games this season. Veteran Jimmy Howard will start for the Wings, who picked up a win against the Leafs back in December. Petr Mrazek, who is now with the Philadelphia Flyers, started for Detroit in the two Maple Leafs wins.

Probable Maple Leafs Lineup
FORWARDS
Zach Hyman - Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Patrick Marleau - Nazem Kadri - Mitch Marner
James van Riemsdyk - Tyler Bozak - Connor Brown
Andreas Johnsson - Tomas Plekanec - Kasperi Kapanen
DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Morgan Rielly - Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner - Nikita Zaitsev
Travis Dermott - Roman Polak
GOALTENDER
Frederik Andersen (34-19-5, 2.80 GAA, .918 save %, 5 SO)
INJURY REPORT
LW-Joffrey Lupul (sports hernia) out, RW-Leo Komarov (lower-body) out

Probable Red Wings Lineup
FORWARDS
Tyler Bertuzzi - Henrik Zetterberg - Gustav Nyquist
Darren Helm - Dylan Larkin - Anthony Mantha
Justin Abdelkader - Frans Nielsen - Andreas Anthanasiou
Evgeny Svechnikov - Luke Glendening - Martin Frk
DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Jonathan Ericsson - Trevor Daley
Danny Dekeyser - Nick Jensen
Niklas Kronwall - Luke Witkowski
GOALTENDER
Jimmy Howard (19-26-8, 2.86 GAA, .909 save %, 0 SO)
INJURY REPORT
RW-Johann Franzen (concussion) out, D-Mike Green (back) out"

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