Mike Babcock’s plan to mix his bag of M & Ms — Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews — is still murky. “When they’ve (played together), I haven’t said to myself ‘geez this has got to be perfect,’” Babcock said. “We haven’t tried that because we’ve had two centres that we can try and spread people round. “When we have played, we’ve been responsible, created opportunities on the offensive side and, defensively speaking, we don’t give a lot. “He’s a funny guy, he moved into my building this year so we spent a lot of time together,” Matthews said.

Source: National Post October 20, 2019 21:45 UTC