Leafs kick off a 4 game home stand tonight. Florida, Ottawa, Calgary and Colorado are on the home stand menu. Panthers beat the Leafs, 5-1 in South Florida at the end of November.
Toronto is 2 points behind the Panthers, with a game in hand. The top two teams in the Atlantic have been separated by two points or less for 103 days this season.
Leafs are 3 points up on Tampa who are in Philadelphia tonight.
Marner (5G, 4A) enters tonight with a 7 game point streak.
Matthews has 15 career goals against Florida in 27 games. Stolarz has faced his former team just once in his career, that was earlier this season when he allowed 4 goals on 23 shots.
Willie Nylander has 7 goals in 12 games facing Bobrovsky.
Florida is 6-6-0 on the road in 2025.
Panthers dropped their last game, ending a 6 game win streak (5 of the wins at home).
Leafs have struggled at home of late, 3-4-1 in their past 8 games, scoring one or none four times.
Be back tomorrow morning to break down Thursdays game and look ahead to Saturday in the Ontario battle
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