“I texted (Marleau) something and I said, like, ’HBU’ – ‘how ’bout you?’ (Marleau) asked Mitch (Marner) what it meant. “Because we’re 20 years old — obviously all these little shortcuts, we’re so familiar with them, we know all of them. He’s currently running 12th, with no less than three defencemen — Morgan Rielly, Jake Gardiner and Ron Hainsey — providing more offence. “We kind of go into scramble mode with lines and stuff (without Bozak),” Matthews said. But we need him to get back to (last season’s) form, obviously.” Said Bozak: “I obviously haven’t got the numbers that I’ve wanted personally.

Source: thestar December 06, 2017 00:22 UTC