Valued at $46.2 million, the Leafs replace two crucial players.

Valued at $46.2 million, the Leafs replace two crucial players……..Tonight in Arizona, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Arizona Coyotes will play.
As Arizona natives Auston Matthews and Matthew Knies love playing against their old team, this game feels like it means more than it actually does. It is also a crucial game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who had won four of their last five games due to Morgan Reilly’s suspension. A sweep of these five games would be a tremendous boost to the team’s confidence.

On top of that, the Maple Leafs have not beaten this Coyotes team in two straight years and have been outscored 8-4 by the Coyotes in their last two trips to Arizona.

But this time could be different, the Coyotes enter play tonight will the potential to break the Coyotes longest losing streak in franchise history.

Goalie matchup between the Coyotes and Toronto Maple Leafs
The Coyotes have lost all ten of their games during this losing run, conceding at least three goals in each of those ten games, and giving up five goals or more in six of those last ten games.

The Coyotes are averaging the sixth most penalty kill time on the ice during this run, and they have the second-worst goal % in the NHL. That shouldn’t go well against the Maple Leafs, who have scored 3.87 goals per game over their last ten games and have converted on 58% of their powerplays in their last eight games. (naturalstattrick.com/stast).

The Coyotes stated that they will start goaltender Karel Vejmelka, who is 3-0 career against the Maple Leafs with a.943 save percentage, despite the Maple Leafs offense being explosive. Although Vejmelka has been unstoppable against the Maple Leafs, he has recently struggled, as evidenced by his 4.66 goals-against average since the start of the season.

This should not be as hard of a matchup to predict as it is. But with all the outside factors, Matthews and Knies being back where they grew up, the chance to sweep all five games without Morgan Reilly and the fact they have not beaten this Coyotes team in two years, I think the Maple Leafs want this game.