Vegas Golden Knights: Three Keys to heaping more misery on the Leafs
2. Shut Down Toronto’s Big Guns
This sounds fairly obvious but as we saw in the Overtime loss to the Maple Leafs on Nov, 7, this Toronto team boasts a lot of offensive firepower.
Auston Matthews, who scored against the Knights earlier this month, leads the Leafs in points with 27 (14 goals, 13 assists), while John Tavares can come up clutch in big moments as he did against Vegas in Overtime.
William Nylander is also having a strong year with eight goals and nine assists for 17 points, while Morgan Rielly can drive play from the point.
And then you have the likes of Kasperi Kapanen, Andreas Johnsson and Ilya Mikheyev who can all chip in with secondary scoring.
But, if the Vegas Golden Knights are going to come out on top tonight, then they are going to have to put the shackles on Toronto’s big hitters.
Matthews and Tavares can throw a team on their back and change a game on their own, so they will need to be shut out of the game tonight.
Otherwise, if they are allowed to do what they did in the last contest between these two franchises, then the Leafs will snap their losing streak.