The Toronto Maple Leafs announced their season opening line up today as well as a few cuts.
Burke announced, as expected, that Phil "One Nut" Kessel and Mike Van Ryn will start the season on the injured non roster players list. Toronto will begin the season with 13 forwards, 7 defenseman and two goaltenders.
Surprisingly, preseason standout Tyler Bozak was not among those included on the final roster.
Bozak, Nikolai Kulemin, Jiri Tlusty, Carl Gunnarsson and goaltender Joey MacDonald were sent to the Maple Leafs AHL affiliate Toronto Marlies. Toronto opens the season tomorrow against Canada's smallest son, the Montreal Canadiens.
The opening night roster is expected to be as follows:
Forwards:
Jason Blake, Mikhail Grabovski, Niklas Hagman, Jamal Mayers, John Mitchell, Colton Orr, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Wayne Primeau, Jay Rosehill, Viktor Stalberg, Matt Stajan, Lee Stempniak and Rickard Wallin,
Defense:
Francois Beauchemin, Garnet Exelby, Jeff Finger, Tomas Kaberle, Mike Komisarek, Luke Schenn and Ian White
Goalies:
Vesa Toskala and Jonas "The Monster" Gustavsson
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