Mike Babcock is jamming a stick into his forward rotation. The two forwards have rotated with Nick Shore and rookie Dmytro Timashov through Toronto’s first four games, while Holl bumps Martin Marincin as rookie Rasmus Sandin’s partner. “They’ve had two games apiece,” head coach Mike Babcock said of the group at large. “And one of the reasons we play eight exhibitions is the NHL guys play four, but it gives us a real fair chance to evaluate everyone else. We want to be right, but we want to give guys a fair chance and we think we have.

Source: National Post October 10, 2019 00:56 UTC