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Sharks visit Toronto with Celebrini on a tear
Macklin Celebrini has 11 points in six games for San Jose, which allows 29 goals in eight. Toronto hosts on one day of rest.
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The best number in San Jose at Toronto belongs to one player. Macklin Celebrini has 11 points in six games (three goals, eight assists) for a Sharks team that is 4-3-1 and has allowed 29 goals in eight games. Will Smith has six points in eight.
San Jose's last five went 2-2-1, and three of them ended past regulation or nearly so: a shootout win in Nashville, an overtime win in St. Louis, and a 4-3 shootout loss in Detroit on Saturday. In between came a 6-3 home loss to Boston. The Sharks' expected goals share is 43.2 percent. Yaroslav Askarov has played the most in net, five games, with a .849 save percentage and minus 1.9 goals saved above expected. He is the busiest goalie, not a confirmed starter.
Toronto is 3-4-2 and last five went 1-2-2, ending with a 4-1 home loss to the Islanders. Two games before that, the Leafs lost 5-4 in Utah and 5-4 in overtime to Buffalo. They score 3.22 goals a game and allow 3.56. Auston Matthews has 13 points, six of them goals, and William Nylander has 12. Grit & GF has Matthews at 99.0 and San Jose's Kiefer Sherwood at 98.0, but both ratings are provisional, resting on nine and eight games. The methodology needs 15 to 20.
Eight books make Toronto the favorite at 56 percent, with San Jose at 44. That is the market's number, not ours. Both teams have had one day of rest. Puck drop is 7:30 pm ET, and the first thing to check is the crease: Sergei Bobrovsky has the most games for Toronto, six, at .890, but neither he nor Askarov is a confirmed starter.
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