It’s a grim scenario for the Maple Leafs, Marner expected to miss four to six weeks — at minimum a dozen games — with what appears be a high ankle sprain. They weren’t so hot with Marner in the lineup, only once stringing together three consecutive wins. Then pay that imagination forward to mid-December, and where the Leafs could be when Marner is restored to the roster. For Nylander, it was three multiple-point outings in his last four games after none in his first nine games of the season. How the bench boss reconfigures the rest of his forward personnel remains to be seen — the Leafs didn’t practise Monday.

Source: thestar November 12, 2019 00:11 UTC