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)
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