December Week 1 Questions for the Month

 Today is another off day for the Leafs and in anticipation of the beginning of the first Leaf game of the month tomorrow against Boston here are some questions and issues that will be answered throughout the month. Firstly some injury updates today; Mike Brown will be out a further 6 weeks after back surgery, Colby Armstrong is expected to be back in about a week, finally James Reimer has been given full clearance to play!

So with Army about to return what will that do to the Leafs lineup, well it would seem someone will have to be sent down the Marlies, I believe the best bet on this is Colbourne, as it will help his development as well Joey Crabb is much more fitted to slide down and play a 4^th line role. I think its also safe to expect that Grabovski will either play in the 2^nd or 3^rd line centre slot with either Bozak playing in the 1^st or 3^rd and Connolly playing in the 1^st or 2^nd depending on line chemistry and play in the early part of the month.

 Another big question this month is Kulemin, he has been known to be a slow starter and despite putting up some points lately has not been able to score very often. At what point is this no longer a slow start? Its 25 games into the season and 2 goals is not worthy of a 2^nd line wing position. It is possible to move Kulimen to third line and put Grabovski there as well which could help jump start them as they find the chemistry they showed throughout last season and the beginning of this one. That would mean Frattin Connolly and Macarthur would make up the 2^nd line, not a bad idea if things continue to go badly for Kulemin.

Now I will pose a couple of Questions to you and hopefully you can answer in the comments on this blog for me!

First who do you believe will have a bigger December Kessel or Lupul?

Secondly with Kadri being named AHL player of the month for November, when will he get a call up? Next injury or if Kulemin continues to struggle?

Thanks for reading look out tomorrow for a pre-view of the Boston Game and as always GO LEAFS GO!!!