GOLDEN KNIGHTS (24-13-12) at MAPLE LEAFS (24-17-9)
7 p.m. ET; TVAS, SN, SCRIPPS
Golden Knights projected lineup
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone
Reilly Smith — Mitch Marner — Pavel Dorofeyev
Branden Bowman — Tomas Hertl — Keegan Kolesar
Cole Reinhardt — Tanner Laczynski — Alexander Holtz
Noah Hanifin — Rasmus Andersson
Jeremy Lauzon — Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton — Kaedan Korczak
Adin Hill
Akira Schmid
Scratched: Dylan Coghlan
Injured: Carter Hart (lower body), Brett Howden (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Brayden McNabb (upper body), Brandon Saad (undisclosed), Colton Sissons (upper body)
Maple Leafs projected lineup
Matias Maccelli — John Tavares — Matthew Knies
Bobby McMann — Auston Matthews — Max Domi
Easton Cowan — Nicolas Roy — Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz — Scott Laughton — Calle Jarnkrok
Morgan Rielly — Brandon Carlo
Oliver Ekman-Larsson — Jake McCabe
Simon Benoit — Troy Stecher
Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll
Scratched: Jacob Quillan, Matt Benning, Philippe Myers
Injured: Chris Tanev (groin), Dakota Mermis (lower body), Dakota Joshua (kidney), William Nylander (groin)
Status report
The Golden Knights did not hold a morning skate following after a 4-3 loss at the Boston Bruins on Thursday. … Andersson will make his Vegas debut after being acquired in a trade with the Calgary Flames on Sunday. … Stolarz will return and start after missing 33 games with an upper-body injury. … Ekman-Larsson is expected to play after leaving in the first period of a 2-1 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday with a lower-body injury. … Nylander, a forward, will miss his fourth straight game. … The Maple Leafs reassigned goalie Dennis Hildeby to Toronto of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Toronto coach Craig Berube will be behind the bench despite sustaining an accident in the gym on Thursday, which led to a black eye and a cut to his forehead which required several stitches.
