With Jack Campbell now fully participating in practice and his status updated to day-to-day, this is a big start for Mrazek in his pursuit to restore trust from the team and coaching staff - two consecutive solid games against high-end teams wouldn’t completely erase the rest of his season to date, but it goes a long way to resetting the table knowing Mrazek is a veteran goaltender who has battled his way out of extended funks in the past. That has taken a turn for the better in the last week with the winning starts from Petr Mrazek against New Jersey and Florida, which has earned him the start in a tough building tonight against the Leafs‘ biggest rival of the past 10 years. The Leafs haven’t been as dominant in 2022 at 21-11-3, but they are scoring the lights out at 3.97 goals per game (second in the NHL behind only Florida) and aren’t giving up a ton more than Boston defensively by the metrics - while the Bruins lead many of the major defensive categories in 2022, the Leafs remain in the top 10 in most of them but are lagging badly in the even-strength goaltending department. Toronto and Boston enter this game with identical records at 41-19-5 through 65 games, but the Bruins have accomplished their 87 points through less prolific scoring and more stingy goal prevention (in large part thanks to much better goaltending) and are riding in on a 27-9-3 record in 2022 (best in the Eastern Conference, second in the league narrowly behind Colorado). The Maple Leafs will look to ride the momentum of an impressive 5-2 win over the Atlantic Division leader into tonight’s game against the Atlantic Division’s fastest riser in the Boston Bruins (7:00 p.m., Sportsnet Ontario).
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