This Tuesday’s game of the night features the Toronto Maple Leafs, led by their stellar defense and goaltending, against the Washington Capitals, who have cornect57 shouldering the load on offense. Two division rivals separated by just 1 point in the standing, should be a good matchup. Let’s take a look at each team’s roster.
The Toronto Maple Leafs gm BiPolorBear1387 has a team with some sneaky good talent here. Their forward group is led by ACK-stonerboy, Linde94, and SMOKESHOWJOE. These guys have the skills to defeat any team’s top line, although they’ve struggled to gain consistency all season. None of these guys have been top producers so far this season, and their numbers are underwhelming. Stoner is the only guy with a current ppg better than his career (2.7/2.5), while linde and smoke have been seriously underperforming (2.0/2.8) and (1.7/2.3). These guys are going to have to turn it around if they want Toronto to make it far in the playoffs. Maybe the fact that linde’s superstar vg team is about to swept in the Stanley cup finals is effecting his play. He’s also playing against smoke in the finals however both had much better numbers in vg this season than they did in sp, so what’s the real issue here? Only they know the answer. The defense on this team started off with goalieman and a revolving door as his partner, but u12bme has settled into a nice role and they are now one of the better d pairings in the league. Polor has been the starter in net and has played the majority of games at goalie this season, and that isn’t going to change because his numbers are good enough to keep his teams in games.
The Washington Capitals are managed by transaction crazy shepard-88-, who seems to be dropping, picking up, or trading half his roster everyday. The offense is led by the aforementioned cornect, who if he played more games, would probably be near the top of the league in scoring. Corn plays a majority of his game at forward with shepard and francey, and they’ve been reliable up front along with mrpenguin. The defense has been anchored by GunzThe4th, but shep seems to have an issue finding him a partner, with phillys, francey, and shep all splitting time as his partner with 9,8, and 7 games played on defense respectively. They have played well, but if shep could find gunz a full time partner he could get more games at forward for himself and France, where they excel. The goaltending is stable with Ucantcme_kamakaz playing a majority of the games in net with solid numbers to help his team.
It’s a tight division, a tight eastern conference, and the playoff picture is not even close to being set. Two points separate 6 teams in the eastern conference, and with 6 points at stake for each team tonight and each team playing the other 3 in their division, it almost seems like there’s even more points available. Some space could be made tonight, or we could be right back in the same spot. Tune if for Toronto vs Washington at 9:00 PM eastern for the game of the night, and keep an eye on the scores around the league aswell, tonight should be interesting.
Team Lines:
Toronto:
LW-linde
C-smoke
RW-stoner
LD-u12bme
RD-goalie
G- polor
Washington:
LW-cornect
C-bardown
RW-dead
LD-gunz
RD-shep
G-kamikaz
Prediction:
Toronto 4 – Washington – 1
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