William Nylander
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Oct 28, 2026
Dave MorassuttiHOST
uh, promotion candidate.
Dave MorassuttiHOST
Cause then you'd have a line of Nick Paul, um, William Nylander and, uh, Gavin McKenna.
Dave MorassuttiHOST
You could potentially put Easton Cowan back on the second line and put William Nylander on the first line, but that Rosalind Cowan and Matthews trio has been working so well.
Dave MorassuttiHOST
You don't want to want to break that up.
Dave MorassuttiHOST
Um, The obvious issue when I kind of say that out loud is a third line of Sissons, Gruhl, and Letary.
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Griff BourdignonGUEST
I feel like Gruhl would do better with, like, Bluger and McEwen.
Griff BourdignonGUEST
Meanwhile, Brandon Duhaime can kind of be that, like, rough, gritty guy and, like, let Vinny Letary kind of shine as it's determined for skill.
Griff BourdignonGUEST
Besides that, I also like this, too, because it's a great – and I don't want to say this in a bad way, but it's kind of a sink or swim for Nick Paul where it's, hey, like, can you fill that 2C role? with Marchenko out you know like hey you're expected now you have William Nylander and you have Gavin McKenna on your wings how do you do with the two of them the other thing I'll say because you said earlier too is not putting Matthews and Nylander together I do like that because I feel like they've never been when they're on five on five they've it hasn't worked to the same extent as like you know Matthews and Marner did for quite a while so I think if you like I said you just slip Duhame and Gruel I do like it um Defense, too.
Danny AustinGUEST
But, you know, I've got the quote in front of me, and we asked him, you know, he clearly got under the league skin last night and loved it.
Danny AustinGUEST
And he just said, he's like, yeah, Nylander cross-checked me like five times in a row.
Danny AustinGUEST
He was really pretty pissed.
Danny AustinGUEST
I'm happy when the opponents from the other team, especially the top players, get pissed when I get under their skin.
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Mm-hmm.
Trevor BeggsHOST
But you have, like, Stephen Samkos at 18.8, Nylander at 18.7, Gensel at 18.5, Wyatt Johnson at 18.4, Kaprizov's a little above 18.
Trevor BeggsHOST
You know, guys like Sam Reinhardt, Alexey Protas, Cole Caulfield, Matthew Nyes, Tim Stutzla, all guys over, like, 17% in terms of their shooting.
Trevor BeggsHOST
Like, we see the way that Lekermackie, how efficient he is with his shot.
Mike BentonHOST
Aside from that, the Kraken had to deal once again with Austin Matthews off to a 20-point and 14-game start.
Mike BentonHOST
William Nylander just one point behind.
Mike BentonHOST
Easton Cowan, the youngster at 21 years of age, 13 points in just 14 games.
Mike BentonHOST
And Prodigy forward Gavin McKenna picked first overall this last summer and at just 18 years of age already owns eight points in his first 14 games.
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Scott LaughlinGUEST
And usually it comes, Mike, as you know, with a team that's right down to the bottom of the standings.
Scott LaughlinGUEST
In the fact that the Leafs lucked out and won the draft lottery and won the right to select McKenna in the first place, he doesn't have to be the guy who drives it with the Leafs.
Scott LaughlinGUEST
He has got Austin Matthews to do that and William Nylander and John Tavares when he's healthy.
Scott LaughlinGUEST
Guys like that to do it.
Bryan HayesHOST
He's chasing them down.
Bryan HayesHOST
And Nylander's not far behind.
Bryan HayesHOST
Like, he is in terms of points.
Bryan HayesHOST
He is
Bryan HayesHOST
So even if he does get recalled, he's not going to step in and supply like Marchenko does and Marchenko has.
Bryan HayesHOST
He just isn't capable of doing that.
Bryan HayesHOST
So it's going to put more of an emphasis on Matthews and Nylander and Cowan and McKenna, et cetera.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
You just got to try to put two lines together and this third and fourth line, play like the fourth line.
Mike JohnsonGUEST
the power play early.
Mike JohnsonGUEST
How many times do we see him try to overpass to Nylander or Matthews and sort of try to spread it around where he wasn't entirely comfortable? So that's part of it.
Mike JohnsonGUEST
And the other part of it is he's sort of been asked to be the number one defensive defenseman.
Mike JohnsonGUEST
And that's not what they brought him in for.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
And you've got guys out there to help you and to clean things up.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
like an Austin Matthews, like a William Nylander, like a Nick Paul, just go be Gavin McKenna.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
And I feel like we might see this guy flourish a little bit.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
I'm concerned about a few things that we've still had concerns about previously, like breaking pucks out off the wall in his own zone, defensive zone coverage.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
But offensively, Dan, He's kind of been handcuffed a little bit.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
With all due respect to Colton Sissons and Vinny Letary, they ain't the kind of guys who are going to be able to contribute and go back and forth and play ball with Gavin McKenna at that level.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
William Nylander, he can play that way.
Zack PhillipsPANELIST
If they choose to mix it up and put Cowan onto line two and then Gavin McKenna onto line one, Austin Matthews, Jack Rozovic, they can play ball.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
I do.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
Um, because I don't think he has the same level of clout, for instance, as a guy like the last guy that really did this to this extent was William Nylander right back in 2019.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
Um, when he signed Brown.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
but for a wonky fax machine, like literally a minute before the deadline.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
And, man, we're like a Simon Edmondson away from really being a serious team like Toronto thought they were when Nylander was going there.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
We want to contend.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
We can't contend without William Nylander.
Dave McCarthyGUEST
Just give it to him.
Jason GregorHOST
So I'm going to play the injury card there.
Jason GregorHOST
I'm going to say that right now, McDavid, Drysdale, Kaprizov, McKinnon, Bouchard, Matthews, Nylander, Eichel, Aho, Pasternak.
Jason GregorHOST
I will say...
Jason GregorHOST
One, two, three, four, I think six will stay in the top ten.
DaleHOST
Last thing, Chad, and we can get out of here.
DaleHOST
Automatic that McKenna, if Marchenko misses time, automatic that Gavin McKenna goes up and plays with Nylander and Paul? Automatic?
ChadHOST
Yeah.
DaleHOST
Or can you see Hiller overthinking this?
ChadHOST
much a defensive liability.
ChadHOST
to not play with those guys I think that's what Hiller thinks
DaleHOST
fair so yeah Nylander McKenna and Paul not like the only responsible one on their own like Willie's been better more Willie can do it he can do it but Paul's like I just think that's the only option right now like who else are you going to put up there you're going to you could you could move Cowan
ChadHOST
like you could put mckenna mckenna with rostovic and matthews and you could
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