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The Toronto Maple Leafs are focusing on tightening their defense following a 6-3 loss to the Senators. Coach Sheldon Keefe confirmed that John Klingberg, who has been working through injuries, will return to the lineup for the game against the Canucks. Bobby McMann has been called up and will replace Ryan Reaves. The team is making changes to address their defensive issues, with a particular focus on goaltending and defensive pairs.
Leafs Ice Chips - Ilya Samsonov will be back between the pipes tonight after getting a few games off, while John Klingberg will be back on the blue line. @markhmasters has the latest on the lineup as Toronto gets set to host the Canucks: https://t.co/mkXZi2P13q
Maple Leafs scratching Ryan Reaves vs. Canucks. https://t.co/rWjg3zMYxM https://t.co/4wBaICGiZB
Sheldon Keefe confirms that Bobby McMann will replace Ryan Reaves tonight for the Leafs. Also: John Klingberg is back in the lineup. He’ll replace Simon Benoit.
John Klingberg will return to the lineup for #LeafsForever vs #Canucks
Also: Klingberg returns tonight
Ryan Reaves and the injured Conor Timmins are the only Leafs skating this morning. Bobby McMann is obviously an option to replace Reaves on the Leafs’ fourth line tonight.
Bobby McMann gets the call for Maple Leafs from AHL Toronto
Leafs have called up Bobby McMann. Expect he'll play tonight.
Re-sharing today's piece on the state of the Leafs defence, and why it looks how the way it does: https://t.co/mYl3ik9s8V
Maple Leafs' poor defensive play can be explained by off-season changes: https://t.co/pr9ygjJ8IO
The Maple Leafs say the struggling John Klingberg is ‘working through some injuries’: https://t.co/aSH5ZfBl84
Wednesday's loss to the Senators was a painful reminder that the Maple Leafs can't always outscore their defensive + goaltending woes. Breaking down their issues on the backend to open the season. https://t.co/kF2SHOxyl0 https://t.co/L4w1MK33pt
Sheldon Keefe says John Klingberg won’t play tonight: “John Klingberg’s been working through some injuries here the last little bit so today’s a chance for us to give him some time to work through that. We’ll have a better sense of where he’s at tomorrow.”
Just when it seemed like a lot of focus in Toronto was on their secondary scoring, the Leafs reminded us how flawed their backend is. On their early season defense + goaltending woes https://t.co/kF2SHOxyl0
#LeafsForever aim to tighten defense ahead of back-to-back games at home “There’s going to be more than one thing you have to key on when it’s that many goals so we’ve given up way too much and we know we have to tighten up.” My @NHLdotcom story: https://t.co/Ghcevcv9AZ
Leafs Ice Chips - The defensive pairs had a different look during Thursday's practice following the team's 6-3 loss to the Senators on Wednesday. @markhmasters has more on what he observed and the work that was done on the penalty kill by the team: https://t.co/CAVDsWFGZe