Bobby McMann is the Man! The Power-Foward the leafs need.

 

Bobby did not have an ideal start to the season, considering he was a healthy scratch opening night. 

That all changed when he got his chance to play, putting up two goals in Toronto's 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. He also laid the body 3 times with one of them being a massive one on defenseman Anderson 

Bobby McMann with a solid hit pic.twitter.com/9osTONe5Yg

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"He's a power forward," Berube said. "That's how he should think the game, night in and night out, as being a power forward with his skating and his size. He doesn't have to complicate the game."

 

 With 13 forwards and only 12 spots available, McMann sat out the opener. Enforcer Ryan Reaves was a healthy scratch in game two. The under-the-weather Tavares sat out game three. And in Wednesday night’s win at Scotiabank Arena it was Max Pacioretty, the 36-year-old winger, who spent the evening watching from above. Pacioretty, speaking to reporters after Tuesday’s practice, acknowledged that he hadn’t performed to his own expectations in Saturday’s 4-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Coming off an off-season in which he mostly concentrated on coaxing his body back to health after a pair of Achilles tendon surgeries that might have ended his career, Pacioretty said he’s now focused on resharpening old skills.

McMann would finish 2023-24 with 15 goals and 24 points in 56 games before a knee injury ruled him out of Toronto's first-round playoff loss to the Boston Bruins.