Maple Leafs and Canadiens set for emotional season opener

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Within 851 – and the 29th to open the season of the National Hockey League – Maple Leafs and Canadiens will look through the central ice, waiting for a bilingual Canada To finish so that they can hit helmets in the oldest professional rivalry of the game.

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But the truce will act on Wednesday before the match, since both clubs remember the deceased Ken of Draden -the goalkeeper of the Glory Hall for Habs in the 1970s, the president of Leafs in the late 90s, the hero of the Canadian team of 72 and the national figure as a writer, commentator and politician.

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The leaves are celebrated by September Draden at the age of 78 from the age of 78 even before he had not yet revealed the ceremony, while the Sportsnet broadcast also praises him.

The preliminary game will also present the 48th drum group Highlanders, which played in every home newcomer since the club began in Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931.

Toronto, who will be released in May in the meek loss of playoffs 6-1 in Florida, which celebrated the final game of Mitcha Marner as a leaf, will begin with Matias McCelly in the right place of Murner near the center and captain Oston MatthewThe latter intends to maintain its off -season oath in order to start 100% of health after a new reverse task was worth him and goals.

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“The camp was firm, and I felt physically better and better every day,” Matthew said after the final complete practice on Tuesday. “I just want to continue this impulse in game 1, do everything possible to help the team win, attack and play in defense.

“We are talking about putting us in a position every night to win. I know that there is my job there.

“There are so many new faces (Maccelli, Nicolas Roy, Dakota JoshuaSammy Blays and Kayden Pram), and now we start and start this journey. ”

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