Pittsburgh is begining its 5 games road trip withouth Sergei Gonchar and Chris Kunitz.

I would wait for start of the game if Vesa Toskala or Jonas Gustavsson will be starting goalie for this game. Toskala is 5-0-1 in his last games at Toronto, but his average of goals against is 2,71 (but all season is 3,72). An opponent Marc-Andre Fleury is not in good shape and we can expect more goals in this game as usual between Toronto and Pittsburgh.

Toronto will try to concentrate more in powerplay and shothanded situations, as they have the worst special teams in NHL last several games.

Crosby and Malkin have great average of points per game against Maple Leafs. Last few game Jordan Staal and his line are scoring good number of goals. This is another expectation from young stars to score, even if Gonchar is missing in powerplays. Tomas Kaberle and Phil Kessel are main players for Toronto. I expect from them to prepare at least 2-3 goals for team mates like Hagman, Kulemin, Stempniak and Ponikarovsky.

Toronto - Pittsburgh estimation -- 4:3, 4:4, 5:3 (over 6,5 goals)