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Maple Leafs need top players to show up versus Penguins

As the first stringers on the Pittsburgh Penguins were being toasted after one fine game, their counterparts on the Maple Leafs have been roasted.

Which should lead to some intense scrutiny when Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin step on the Air Canada Centre ice on Saturday night. While one game in 82 hardly qualifies as valid evidence, there is already talk Hart Trophy winner Crosby and Malkin could be headed for triple figures this year, based on Thursday 6 4 win over Western Conference power Anaheim.

thing we try and do and I think everybody tries is to limit his time and space, crowd him as much as possible, don give him freedom. Leafs, meanwhile, spent more than an hour on Friday trying to work out kinks that allowed the Montreal Canadiens too much room in a 4 3 loss. A glaring part of that was a second period letdown where the top line of centre Tyler Bozak and wingers Phil Kessel and James van Riemsdyk sagged against their Canadiens counterparts.

Despite having last line change again on Saturday, Carlyle knows he have to pull levers and push buttons all night. He must decide between shadowing Crosby and wingers Patric Hornqvist and Chris Kunitz with checkers or letting Bozak unit go head to head and hope they keep the puck on the attack longer. Or use all four lines in a sped up chess game to keep both Pittsburgh top trios engaged. Crosby wasn even the leading scorer on Thursday with Malkin opposite winger Pascal Dupuis enjoying a four point night.

don have to say much, van Riemsdyk said of knock off van cleef and arpels perlee clover bracelet what the Leafs face. with what they have up front. Their back end, too, is smart, they move the puck and have an influence on the game. We know it will be a challenge.

can hold the puck for a minute and a half, but if you make a bad decision with it, it in the back of your net. Riemsdyk and Co. read or heard about Carlyle harping on the line Game 1 effort after Thursday practice, which somehow segued into speculation that Kessel and Bozak were paying for poor use of recovery time from lower body injuries at the end of camp. Kessel is hardly Charles Atlas, but he was a willing participant in summer camp conditioning drills for those watching in August, rarely misses a game and is getting fed up hearing he not in proper shape.

guys look at our test scores, ask (conditioning coach) Anthony Belza and then come talk to me and see where we rate, Kessel challenged reporters. was Game 1 and you guys need to relax a bit. Obviously, we want to be better, but there are 81 more left. It a little too soon to jump on the gun here.

didn feel any rust (Wednesday). It was just one of those games where nothing went replica van cleef and arpels bracelet alhambra right for us. that respect, the NHL schedule won give the Leafs much of a break, back out against the Pens 72 hours later. Crosby had a league best 104 points last year, while Malkin was 15th with 72 points in 60 games. Kessel was sixth with 80 points, just off his career high.

they two of the best players in the league, if not the best, Kessel said. special and, if we play against them, we have to play good defence, for the line of Mike Santorelli, Leo Komarov and David Clarkson to get lots of the coverage duty. Assignments such as these are one of the reasons Toronto brought the sneaky Komarov back from the KHL. Second line centre Nazem Kadri likes to try some disruptive head games, too.

The wild card in the Toronto lineup is right winger Richard Panik, claimed on waivers from Tampa Bay on Thursday and placed on a big shoulders line with Peter Holland and Daniel Winnik on Friday. He will take Matt Frattin spot if Carlyle thinks he can catch up on enough Leaf systems work by Saturday night.

But Toronto defence has to carry its weight, too. It also had some breakdowns against Montreal that the Pens would be even better suited to exploit. It only been one game for Dion Phaneuf back on the left side and two with new partner Stephane Robidas, counting the final exhibition match. Cody Franson is questionable to return from a knee injury that saw Stu Percy make his NHL debut against the Habs.

THIS PEN IS MIGHTIER

Toronto is one of eight NHL teams that Sidney Crosby has played fewer than 30 times, but has recorded at least 30 points against:PANIK TIME FOR LEAFS

New winger Richard Panik has already accomplished something hundreds of Leafs have only dreamed about fake van cleef jewelry since 1967.

He hoisted a pro hockey championship trophy in June in Toronto, and scored in the title game. Okay, it was the Calder Cup and it came at the expense of the Leafs farm team when Panik was a Norfolk Admiral.

But it was a noteworthy feat and his play at Ricoh Coliseum two years ago is where the Leafs first had an inkling they like Panik on their side if the chance ever came.

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