At Monday's Leafs versus
Flyers NHL preseason game I wore two hats – broadcasting with
Rogers and Leafs TV as game host, and writing for Canadian Press.
If actors can be a triple
threat by singing, dancing and acting, and baseball players can have
three tools (bat, glove, and speed), I would like to think I have dual strengths.
Leafs won 3-2 in a
shootout. Here's my pre-edited game story, and below a few links to
where the story appeared.
As a quick note, a full
contingent of reporters were at London's Budweiser Gardens from TSN (Mark Masters), Sportsnet
(Chris Johnston), Toronto Star (Kevin McGran), Toronto Sun (Rob
Longley) and points in between.
JAKE MUZZIN
Also posted below are the two links to the Jake Muzzin: In Focus show I participated in for Rogers TV in Woodstock along with cameraman / producer / editor John Payne.
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Leafs defeat Flyers 3-2 in a shootoutFirst exhibition games for both NHL clubs
By Mark Schadenberg
For: THE CANADIAN PRESS
LONDON,
Ont -- Familiar surroundings for Nazem Kadri.
Starting
the NHL preseason in London -- Kadri's hometown and the arena where
he starred with the OHL's London Knights, the Toronto Maple Leafs
beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in a shootout on Monday night.Matt Read and Michael Raffl built a 2-0 lead for the Flyers, who were the home team in this contest for line changes, but Kadri would ignite the turn around with a late second-period marker and then set up Tom Nilsson for the equalizer 1:39 into the third period. Kadri was able to send a cross-ice pass to defenceman Nilsson breaking off the point and a one-timer beat Flyers goalie Anthony Stolarz, who last year played for the Knights and is a second round selection of the Flyers in 2012.
In the shootout, David Booth was the only scorer. Booth, who had nine goals and 19 points with Vancouver last season, joined the Leafs in the off-season on a one-year pact signed in July.
Kadri talked about playing in front of family and friends, and wanting to start the exhibition season on a positive note after netting 20 goals and 50 points last year for a Toronto team which missed the playoffs.
“I'm from here and I just don't want to disappoint, I guess,” said Kadri. “Production will be hugely important for me this year. I'm an offensive player. My goal is also to become a player who is the whole package. I think I was better on the draws today and working coming back in my own end.”
Stolarz stopped 29 of 31 shots over 65 minutes.
For Toronto, starter Christopher Gibson stopped 11 of 12 in 31 minutes, while Cal Heeter allowed a goal early in his second-half duty but recovered to be the winning goalie with 11 saves also on a dozen shots, plus three more saves in the shootout.
“I think I came in a little cold. I was pretty flat-footed on that first goal (by Raffl)," admitted Heeter, who ironically played in the Flyers system last year, including one appearance with Philadelphia and 44 more with the AHL Phantoms.
“Ì competed and battled well,” continued Heeter, who wore Flyers pads.”Ìt wasn`t the smoothest or best game I`ve played. I was a little choppy at times with my movement and on some rebounds.”
It would appear Heeter, Gibson, Antoine Bibeau and Garret Sparks will battle for the two positions with the Toronto Marlies, while Jonathan Bernier and James Reimer own the Leafs crease.
For the Leafs, it's another preseason match-up Tuesday versus the same Flyers, with a 7:30 p.m. start at Air Canada Centre.
With 11 goals and 29 points with the AHL Phantoms last year, Nick Cousins is working to earning a full-time promotion as he contributed assists on both Philadelphia goals.
For Leafs coach Randy Carlyle the contest was an early assessment on a busy exhibition schedule as Toronto not only plays Tuesday at home but also twice on Wednesday -- two split squad games versus Ottawa.
“It`s
all about how well we did on working on the three things we are
asking our players to concentrate on,” said Carlyle. “We`re
working on defensive zone coverage, fore-checking systems, and play
in the neutral zone.
“We
really are not doing a lot of things drastically different, but we
are working on some ideas with our new group of coaches here,”
commented Carlyle, referring to new assistants Steve Spott, who was
head coach with the Marlies last year, plus Peter Horachek added to
the bench.Interesting sidebar for the Flyers, is the fact the club in London was a split squad as Philadelphia actually played two home games Monday, also edging the Washington Capitals, 5-4.
Both clubs open the regular season on Oct 8 -- Toronto hosting Montreal and the Leafs start with four of five on home ice. Meanwhile, the Flyers will start in Boston.
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