Leafs vs Yotes. Matthews plays his 100th game.

Hey everybody, I’m back with a pregame post as Matthews gets ready to face his childhood team for his 100th career game. After tonight, you’ll see a lot of people with stats for Matthews that will start with: After 100 games…and then compare him to other Hall of Famers. I’m sure our buddy @oak_leafs will have a few dandies for us. maybe not exactly something like this:

Gentle reminder that in the event you are not satisfied with the context or bias of any stats I post, you are welcome to shove your head up your own ass for a FULL refund. Or, you know…research and post your own fukn stats.

— Active Stick (@TheOakLeafs) November 20, 2017

I have joked plenty of times in the past how the Coyotes have been constructed by a GM that is very analytics-centric. The truth is, they are just downright bad with a couple of great players like OEL and Clayton Keller.

However, you can’t look past them like Sens and the Habs have. The Yotes have beat them both for a two game winning streak.

The

Leafs lineup for tonight will be :

Status quo for #TMLtalk pic.twitter.com/GyKHmi4Amd

— Daily Faceoff (@DailyFaceoff) November 20, 2017

Andersen will start. He has two shutouts in a row and my mentioning that doesn’t affect tonight. I wish I had that power, but I don’t.

The Coyotes lineup will be:

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/arizona-coyotes/line-combinations/

Perlini-Stepan-Rieder

Keller-Richardson-Fischer

Domi-Dvorak-Rinaldo

Martinook-Cousins-Duclair

Ekman-Larsson – Demers

Goligoski-Hanley

Connauton-Schenn

Antti Raanta: Goalie Start: Raanta is expected to start Monday in Toronto. https://t.co/Y4QXs182Uy

— Daily Faceoff (@DailyFaceoff) November 20, 2017

Players to watch for:

Clayton Keller leads all players with 11 goals and 18 points
Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads all players with 25:18 ATOI and is a -15
Almost every single player is a minus except for Duclair and Hanley at zero, so in other words they have been pretty bad so far this season.
Antti Raanta is 3 and 5, GAA 3.12 SV% .916 which isn’t too bad considering the team he has in front of him

The Leafs are going for their seventh win in a row and the Coyotes record is 4-15-3 for 11 points. So obviously the odds are in the Leafs’ favour. However, I still don’t think it’s guaranteed win night.

Not directly related to this game but I really liked this tweet from a couple of days ago.

Terrific trio @AM34 @Marner93 @wmnylander reading Babs and Shanny’s Hockey handbook. #goleafsgo #tmltalk pic.twitter.com/n4EiuKSch7

— Sandy – LadyBabship (@Skateordie416) November 18, 2017

This sums up tonight very well.