Opinion: It’s hard to say which part of the Matt Murray’s early-season sidelining is more alarming for the Maple Leafs.
Maybe it’s that Murray, the goaltender brought aboard in the off-season despite a lengthy and varied history of injury, couldn’t make it through the morning skate of what was to be his second start of the season Saturday, limping off the ice with a groin injury that willOr maybe it’s that Murray, even when he seemed perfectly healthy in Wednesday’s season-opening loss in Montreal, looked less than impressive in his Leafs debut, and not only because he allowed four goals on 23 shots to the team...
And there are positives. With the goaltender’s $4.7-million cap hit suddenly removed from Toronto’s tight-to-the-ceiling equation, there was some welcome room to expand the roster, which had consisted of just 20 players for the opening two games of the season, three short of the NHL standard 23. So on the day the Leafs called up Marlies goaltender Erik Källgren to fill Murray’s place,.
The Leafs were already rolling the dice when they replaced last season’s tandem of Jack Campbell and Petr Mrázek with, the latter a former first-round pick of the Washington Capitals. Now, when you consider that Källgren had an underwhelming save percentage of .888 in 12 starts last season, they’re suddenly placing an even bigger bet on Samsonov.
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