The Maple Leafs travelled to Detroit to take on Dylan Larkin and the Red Wings tonight, and this matchup sure looked lopsided on paper. Toronto came into this game having scored seven goals in each of their past two games, and the Red Wings simply don’t have a ton of talent on the back-end to matchup against this high-powered offence.
Tonight’s lineup featured Martin Marincin instead of Igor Ozhiganov, while Frederik Gauthier remained in the lineup over Andreas Johnsson. Meanwhile, early season standout Dennis Cholowski was out of Detroit’s lineup due to an upper body injury.