NHL LIVE Toronto Maple Leafs vs New Jersey Devils 9th April 2024 Full Game Reaction
15The Toronto Maple Leafs will look to solidify their playoff position when they face the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night in Newark, N.J.
Toronto (45-23-9, 99 points) trails the Florida Panthers by three points for second place in the Atlantic Division, though the Maple Leafs have a game in hand. The Leafs lead the Tampa Bay Lightning by six points for third place.
On Monday, Jake McCabe scored 1:30 into overtime to lift the Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins. Auston Matthews scored his league-high 65th goal of the season for Toronto, which is 5-1-0 in its past six games. Ilya Samsonov made 30 saves and rookie winger Matthew Knies scored his 15th goal of the season.
The Maple Leafs surrendered a late 2-1 lead before winning in overtime against a surging Penguins team that is competing for a wild-card spot.
Matthews has six goals during a five-game goal streak and has registered points in each of his past 11 games (10 goal, 10 assists), tied for the active current point streak in the NHL. He has five games left to reach the 70-goal mark, which would make him the first to get there since Buffalo's Alexander Mogilny and Winnipeg's Teemu Selanne each scored 76 in 1992-93.
The Devils (37-36-5, 79 points) continued their late-season slide with a 3-2 shootout loss to the visiting Nashville Predators on Sunday. Jack Hughes and Chris Tierney scored for the Devils, who are 1-3-1 in their past five.
Hughes, however, was ruled out of Tuesday's game due to an upper-body injury.
Goalie Kaapo Kahkonen left in the first period due to a lower-body injury, and Jake Allen made 29 saves in relief.
Nashville scored the only goal in the shootout.
Luke Hughes had an assist to extend his point streak to seven games (one goal, six assists). He has 45 points (nine goals, 36 assists) on the season, the second-most points by a rookie defenseman in franchise history. Barry Beck had 60 points for the Colorado Rockies in 1977-78.
According to Green, forward Curtis Lazar, who sustained an upper-body injury at Ottawa on Saturday, likely is out for the season.
The teams will play the second game of a home-and-home set on Thursday in Toronto. The visiting Devils beat the Maple Leafs 6-3 on March 26 in the clubs' first meeting of the season behind 42 saves from Allen and a goal and two assists from captain Nico Hischier.
Maple Leafs projected lineup
Forwards
Tyler Bertuzzi - Auston Matthews - Max Domi
Bobby McMann - John Tavares - Mitch Marner
Matthew Knies - Pontus Holmberg - William Nylander
Connor Dewar - David Kampf - Ryan Reaves
Defencemen
Morgan Rielly - Ilya Lyubushkin
Simon Benoit - Jake McCabe
Mark Giordano - TJ Brodie
Goalies
Joseph Woll
Ilya Samsonov
Scratched: Martin Jones, Noah Gregor, Conor Timmins, Nicholas Robertson
Injured: Calle Jarnkrok (hand), Joel Edmundson (undisclosed), Matt Murray (hip), Timothy Liljegren (upper body)
Devils projected lineup
Forwards
Shane Bowers - Nico Hischier - Jesper Bratt
Timo Meier - Erik Haula - Alexander Holtz
Ondrej Palat - Tomas Nosek - Dawson Mercer
Kurtis MacDermid - Chris Tierney - Nolan Foote
Defencemen
Luke Hughes - John Marino
Kevin Bahl - Brendan Smith
Jonas Siegenthaler - Simon Nemec
Goalies
Jake Allen
Akira Schmid
Scratched: Brian Halonen, Nick DeSimone
Injured: Dougie Hamilton (torn pectoral muscle), Nathan Bastian (lower body), Curtis Lazar (upper body), Kaapo Kahkonen (lower body); Jack Hughes (upper body)
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