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The Maple Leafs are icing a definitively tank-friendly lineup tonight in a meeting with the second-place team in the East, the New York Islanders.

Lineup Notes:

  • Nazem Kadri is scratched as a disciplinary measure after sleeping in and missing a team meeting yesterday.
  • Roman Polak has been shut down for the rest of the season to undergo a hernia procedure.
  • Stephane Robidas has been shut down for the rest of the season to undergo shoulder surgery.

Kadri addresses media:

Here is what is left of the Leafs lineup:

Maple Leafs Projected Lines

James van Riemsdyk – Tyler Bozak – Phil Kessel
Leo Komarov – Peter Holland – Richard Panik
Joffrey Lupul – Trevor Smith – David Booth
Brandon Kozun – Zach Sill – Joakim Lindstrom

Dion Phaneuf – Jake Gardiner
Eric Brewer – Tim Erixon
Morgan Rielly – Petter Granberg

Jonathan Bernier
James Reimer

Scratched: Nazem Kadri
Injured: Stephane Robidas (shoulder), Roman Polak (hernia)

Peter Horachek Game Day Presser:

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