NHL Game Preview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Detroit Red Wings with Line Combinations 12/27/2024

NHL Game Preview: Torono Maple Leafs at Detroit Red Wings with Line Combinations 12/27/2024

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-12-2, 44 Points) at. Detroit Red Wings (13-17-4, 30 Points) 

Venue: Little Caesars Arena
Date: Friday, December 27
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+/ SNO/Fan Duel Sports Network Detroit
Radio:
Toronto – 1050 TSN
Detroit – WXYT 97.1 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Toronto -1.5 ML -162
Detroit +1.5 ML +136
O/U 6

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Toronto Maple Leafs News & Notes:

Toronto suffered their second straight loss after winning three straight. They are 5-5-0 in their last ten and have been outscored 35-26. They rank in the top ten in the league in penalty kill and sixth in face-off percentage.

Detroit Red Wings News & Notes:

Detroit dropped their third straight game and has allowed an average of 4.3 goals per game while scoring an average of 1.3 goals per game. The season is slowly slipping away from the Red Wings as they enter tonight sitting in 15th in the Eastern Conference and eight points out of the final playoff spot, if they want to break the streak of missing the playoffs for eight straight seasons they will need to go on a run especially coming out of the holiday break.

Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines

Knies-Tavares-Marner
Robertson-Domi-Nylander
McMann-Kampf-Pacioretty
Lorentz-Holmberg-Dewar
Reilly-Myers
Ekman-Larsson-McCabe
Benoit-Timmins

Woll
Murray

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Detroit Red Wings Projected Lines

Tarasenko–Larkin–Raymond  
DeBrincat–Copp–Kane
Rasmussen-Compher-Fischer 
Veleno–Kasper–Berggren
Edvinsson–Seider
Chiarot–Petry
Gustafsson-Johansson

Talbot
Lyon

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Players To Watch:

Toronto Maple Leafs

Mitch Marner this season has 46 points on ten goals and 36 assists. He’s faced Detroit 26 times in his career recording 32 points on 15 goals and 17 assists; in the previous two games against the Red Wings this season he has four points on a goal and three assists.

Detroit Red Wings

This season, Lucas Raymond has 33 points, 13 goals, and 20 assists. Raymond has faced the Maple Leafs 13 times in his career recording 14 points on six goals and eight assists; this season through two games against Toronto he has two points on a goal and an assist.

Injury Report:

Toronto Maple Leafs

G Anthony Stolarz – IR – Out four to six weeks
C Calle Jarnkrok – IR – Month to month
F Auston Matthews – Out
D Chris Tanev – DTD

Detroit Red Wings

None

Next Up

Detroit: December 29 vs Washington Capitals
Toronto: – December 28 vs Washington Capitals

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