After ‘eternity’ away, Maple Leafs gain healthy players for return to action

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Although the Toronto Maple Leafs’ plans (like everyone else’s these days) are subject to change, they do have a hockey game on the schedule Saturday. Finally. lukefoxjukebox has the details.

does go forward in front of a half-full Scotiabank Arena, the New Year’s Day affair will surely be coated in rust and relief.on Dec. 14, 18 days will have passed, 15 players will have tested positive for our contagion’s latest incarnation, and eight games have been postponed., feeling positive this week after testing negative.

“The whole team hasn’t gotten it. We don’t want anyone else to get it. So, we’ve gotta double down on being safe,” warned head coach Sheldon Keefe, who needed to mask up inside his own home during the break. Before their mid-December outbreak in Western Canada — plus another that touched 24 Marlies and five AHL staff at home on the farm — the Maple Leafs’ world had been going swimmingly.

To be sure, flulike symptoms and stagnant legs have drained some of the players’ momentum. Some Leafs confessed to Keefe that their first practice this week “felt worse than the first day of training camp.”admitted to “fighting through fatigue.” And yet, having two post-Christmas games delayed has allowed the Leafs ample practice time to ramp up for Saturday’s return.

 

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