Injured Leaf Nikita Zaitsev scratched for Game 1 vs. Capital

[QuakeSteve]

Nikita Zaitsev's Stanley Cup playoff debut is on hold.

The Maple Leafs rookie, who is second only to fellow defenceman Morgan Rielly in average ice time among Toronto players, missed a second straight day of practice Wednesday and will sit out Thursday's playoff opener at Washington (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. ET) with an upper-body injury.

I'll tell you what, if I drafted this guy in a playoff hockey pool last night I'd be feeling PRETTY DARN FOOLISH right about now.

[seremtan]

English-only on this forum pls

Thx

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Nikita Zaitsev's Stanley Cup playoff debut is on hold.

The Maple Leafs rookie, who is second only to fellow defenceman Morgan Rielly in average ice time among Toronto players, missed a second straight day of practice Wednesday and will sit out Thursday's playoff opener at Washington (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. ET) with an upper-body injury.

I'll tell you what, if I drafted this guy in a playoff hockey pool last night I'd be feeling PRETTY DARN FOOLISH right about now.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

[QuakeSteve]

I had a yuge crush on Melissa Gilbert when I was a kid and it really shook me up when she came out.


Really made me think.