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The Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres held optional skates at Scotiabank Arena on Monday. "He’s a competitor," said Sabres winger Alex Tuch, who's expected to return from an eight-game injury absence."You can see it each and every night. He hates, not losing in general, but just losing puck battles. He hates losing a shift and that's something that I got to give him a lot of credit for. I love to compete against a guy like that. He's not chippy. He's not cheap.
"They all have hockey sense," said Sabres coach Don Granato of Toronto's stars."When combined together, they can think very fast, very quick, especially off of turnovers, which we fed a couple times already this year.""We played a little too loose the first couple times," Granato said when the previous games were raised."We're aware of what you just mentioned and have to adjust accordingly to work to minimize that.
Acciari scored twice in Saturday's win over the Oilers. His sound defensive play was also key. Keefe deployed the Matthews line against Connor McDavid to start the game, but with his team trailing, Sheldon Keefe changed the matchup and asked Acciari, David Kampf and Zach Aston-Reese to soak up some shifts against the game's most dynamic player.
"We've played some of our best hockey with 11 and seven," he pointed out."We might discover through this that we might be better with 11 and seven. We'll see how it goes. It's important that we're not just locked into 12 and six. While 12 and six is the most comfortable situation, it might not be the best one. It's important we give it some time and be smart with how we manage it the rest of the way.
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