For the latest Leafs updates or Follow @mikeinbuffalo on Twitter The Toronto Maple Leafs put forth another solid effort in a 4-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata, ON on Wednesday; the identical score of the exhibition opener in Lucan, ON on Tuesday. Tyler Ennis scored a pair of goals in his Leafs debut, Auston Matthews and Jeremy Bracco tallied for Toronto and Frederik Andersen stopped all 19 shots he faced before being replaced by Calvin Pickard in the third period.
Auston Matthews from Patrick Marleau! 1-0 Leafs pic.twitter.com/lMwm1fPHo8
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The battle of the backups continues as Curtis Mcelhinney and Garret Sparks get some early work in at MCC on Thurs. #Leafs #TMLTalk pic.twitter.com/fNYzwZMe4u
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Jeremy Bracco! 2-0 Leafs. pic.twitter.com/T38jMvu8AD
— Flintor (@TheFlintor) September 20, 2018
The Leafs will be experimenting with a new power play alignment with the departure of Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk. On Tuesday, Tavares lined up with Nazem Kadri, Morgan Rielly, Mitch Marner and Marlies winger Dmytro Timashov. Babcock indicated that he plans to use Auston Matthews on the first unit, with Tavares taking the JVR spot down low, but the Leafs head coach left himself some room to change things around if the unit struggles. “That’s how we are going to start and go from there, but it’s got to have success.… Babcock said. “When we were recruiting (Tavares), I asked him what spot he wanted to play on the power play and he said ‘net front’. That surprised me to be honest with you, I didn’t know what he was going to say, because we were going use (Matthews) there.… *******
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