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    Octobers to forget in Maple Leafs net

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    Octobers to forget in Maple Leafs net Empty Octobers to forget in Maple Leafs net

    Post by jedi17 Thu 27 Oct 2016, 8:19 pm

    Octobers to forget in Maple Leafs net


    Frederik Andersen isn’t very proud of his early season numbers with the Leafs, but he can take some solace knowing a few others have been a lot worse in October.
    Going by the criteria of at least five games in October, Andersen’s 4.29 goals-against average and .851 save percentage are still better than Vesa Toskala, who lost early and often in the autumn of 2007-08. In the worst October experienced by a Leafs goalie since 1991-92 — with numbers looked up by the Elias Sports Bureau — Toskala had a 5.13 GAA and .836 save percentage in the opening month.

    It gets worse for the Leafs when peeled back to the 1980s, with big snipers, less protective goalie equipment and a truly inexperienced Toronto defence. That’s when Michel Larocque registered a 5.44 GAA in October of 1982, and Ken Wregget matched that two years later.

    GRIFFTH IN LINE

    Line juggling was evident on Wednesday at practice, some of it brought about when left winger James van Riemsdyk missed the workout. Head coach Mike Babcock would say only that van Riemsdyk will return for Toronto’s game on Thursday against the Florida Panthers.

    One change is planned, waiver pickup Seth Griffith in for Peter Holland on the fourth-line right wing. Babcock put another waiver claim, Ben Smith, right to work centring that line on Tuesday after Milan Michalek was demoted and Connor Brown promoted to his position.

    Despite the breakdowns on defence, Babcock said Frank Corrado was not going to play against the Panthers, the seventh game he will have sat.

    COLD COMFORT

    Shawn Thornton of the Panthers had a chirping session going on with Toronto assistant coach D.J. Smith as both teams concluded practice at separate ice pads at the MasterCard Centre. It was all about reminiscing when both were roommates with the St. John’s Maple Leafs back in the late 1990s.

    “We had a townhouse and (one-time Leaf) Don MacLean was also there,” the Oshawa-born Thornton fondly recalled. “In winter, the snow was so high, you were frozen out of the first floor so you had to leave the house out the second-floor window. If we came home, we wouldn’t realize we were walking right on top of our cars, until it melted and you saw these big dips in the roof.”

    Thornton said the heavy snow did have advantages, with the players arranging the couch and TV so they could stick beers in the snowbank, slide a door open and pull in a cold one without having to move.

    REIMER’S QUIET RETURN

    There appear to be no plans to officially recognize James Reimer’s return during the game Thursday, as such comeback games usually was downplayed by general manager Lou Lamoriello. Reimer, who played in 207 games, 10th among goaltenders in club history, isn’t scheduled to start, but the in-house camera likely will find him on the bench for a few moments at some point in the game.

    After Reimer departed last February in a trade to San Jose, he was still named the Leafs’ Masterton Trophy nominee by the Toronto chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, his second such honour. The club did not publicize the nomination as most NHL teams do, in part because there was a chance Reimer might be brought back as a free agent and management was sensitive to the slightest hint of tampering before July 1.


    Antoine Bibeau, Reimer’s backup for a time last season with the Leafs, started for the Marlies on Wednesday in Providence.
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