How to replace Matthew Knies is just one of Maple Leafs’ pressing questions. Toronto needs Giordano and Samsonov, among others, to step up their game.
The 20-year-old was body-slammed by Florida’sFriday not for the Knies incident but for a cross-check to the neck of Michael Bunting that had Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe wondering how the league would respond.
The left-winger, who played just three regular-season games after his college career ended, has one goal and three assists in seven playoff games while impressing with his positional play. The Leafs have outscored their opponents 7-3 when Knies has been on the ice. The adjustment could be as simple as inserting one of forwards Zach Auston-Reese and Wayne Simmonds, who were healthy scratches for Game 2. Or Keefe could opt to go with 11 forwards and seven defencemen, something the coach was experimenting with late in the regular season. The 11-7 approach would mean more ice time for the top forwards., the 2019 Norris Trophy winner and the NHL career leader in blocked shots, seems unthinkable.
The Leafs, though, have an extra day off before the their series resumes in Florida on Sunday, and that might be just the pause Giordano needs to get back to his usually reliable play.’s answer. “I don’t give a f---,” he said Thursday, when asked about the goaltending battle with the Panthers’ Sergei Bobrovsky.
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