Ice Chips: Maple Leafs G Stolarz to start vs. Bruins
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Anthony Stolarz is in the starter’s net at Leafs skate as they prepare to take on the Boston Bruins tonight.
Stolarz also started against Boston on Saturday, allowing four goals on 19 shots in a 5-3 loss and was pulled in favour of Dennis Hildeby, who finished the game with 19 saves.
Since starting the month of November 3-0, the Maple Leafs have dropped their last two games.
Stolarz is 6-5-1 this season with an .889 save percentage and 3.35 GAA.
Lines at Leafs skate in Boston per TSN’s Mark Masters:
Knies – Matthews – Robertson
McMann – Tavares – Nylander
Joshua – Roy – Maccelli
Lorentz – Domi – Blais
Jarnkrok
Rielly – Carlo
Benoit – McCabe
Ekman-Larsson – Myers
Mermis
Stolarz starts
Hildeby
Tampa Bay Lightning
Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said that defenceman Ryan McDonagh will miss a few games while Victor Hedman and Pontus Holmberg are day to day.
Cooper adds that Dominic James and Nick Paul are not quite day to day yet as they continue to recover from injuries. He says injuries aren’t progressing as they hoped and they will likely recall players on Wednesday ahead of their game against the New York Rangers.
Injury updates: Lightning D Ryan McDonagh will be out “a few games”, per Jon Cooper.
Dominic James, Nick Paul not quite day to day yet.
Hedman, Holmberg day to day.
Cooper said injuries aren’t progressing the way they hoped, recalls likely ahead of Wednesday. #GoBolts https://t.co/UcFg8eyOLp
— Benjamin Pierce (@BenjaminJReport) November 11, 2025
Montreal Canadiens
Samuel Montembeault will be starting a second straight game for the Canadiens tonight at the Los Angeles Kings.
He is coming off a 25-save performance on Saturday night against the Utah Mammoth, a 6-2 win for Montreal.
After struggling in October, Montembeault has been better in November, going 2-0-1 in his three starts. On the season, he is 4-3-1 with an .864 save percentage and 3.46 GAA.
Fifteen players skated for Montreal this morning including captain Nick Suzuki, who missed yesterday’s practice with a therapy day.
Boston Bruins
Defenceman Charlie McAvoy is back in the lineup tonight and Jeremy Swayman is in net as the Bruins face the Maple Leafs tonight.
Defenceman Jonathan Aspirot is out with McAvoy’s return.
McAvoy missed Saturday’s 5-3 win over the Maple Leafs for personal reasons. The 27-year-old has 12 assists in 16 games this season.
The Bruins have won six straight games.
Jeremy Swayman in for the Bruins, per Marco Sturm. Charlie McAvoy back in tonight and Jonathan Aspirot coming out the lineup
— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) November 11, 2025
Ottawa Senators
Goaltender Linus Ullmark appears to be the starter tonight against the Dallas Stars, per Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch.
Ullmark, who has struggled this season with an .866 save percentage and 3.24 goals-against average, is coming off a 20-save performance on Thursday night in a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
Today’s alignment #Sens
Lycksell isn’t on the ice
Perron-Stutzle-Batherson
Greig-Cozens-Zetterlund
Amadio-Pinto-Giroux
Cousins-Eller-Hodgson
MacDermid
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Spence
Kleven-Jensen
Matinpalo
Ullmark appears to be starting
— Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) November 11, 2025
Forward Olle Lycksell was not on the ice this morning but Kurtis MacDermid was present skating as the 13th forward.



