Andersen Maple Leafs vs ANA

DUCKS (16-11-5) at MAPLE LEAFS (12-11-7)
7:30 p.m. ET; SNO, PRIME, NHL.TV

Ducks team scope

Anaheim Ducks coach Randy Carlyle will be behind the bench for the first time at Air Canada Centre nearly two years to the day he coached his final home game with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Dec. 20, 2014. "The one thing is, I miss all these people here," Carlyle said after the morning skate. "Usually I don't see this many people in the morning scrum, and obviously Toronto is a passionate market. Living here and being part of that market is quite different than what I'm accustomed to in the Anaheim market, but that's what you deal with here." Carlyle was fired as Maple Leafs coach on Jan. 6, 2015, following a 2-5-0 road trip. He was hired as Ducks coach for the second time on June 14; he coached Anaheim for seven seasons from 2005-12, winning the Stanley Cup in 2007. Goaltender John Gibson will start and face Frederik Andersen, a teammate for parts of the past three seasons with the Ducks before Andersen was traded to the Maple Leafs on June 20. Gibson said he does not feel any added pressure to prove the Ducks made the right choice by keeping him. "I think it'll be fun, there's really not much else to say," he said about facing Andersen. "We're good friends but we have a lot of friends around the League. I think it'll just be fun." The Ducks are 7-3-1 in their past 11 games, but are 1-2-0 through three games of a six-game road trip and are 6-7-4 on the road this season.

Maple Leafs team scope

Andersen, who was 77-26-12 in 125 games with Anaheim, will make his fourth consecutive start. "It's going to be fun, a lot of old faces that I've seen before, but for us it's two points that are really important," he said Monday. "Last home game of this stretch here, so we want to make the best of it." Forward Frederik Gauthier was recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League and will make his season debut on Monday. Forward Josh Leivo also will be in the lineup for the first time this season after recovering from a lower-body injury. "I've been itching for a while now, the injury was a lot longer than I thought," Leivo said. "There are nerves, it's been a while since I played a game, the first period I've got to get my legs under me. But I've been planning for this my whole life, so I just have to get out there and hopefully it goes good." Coach Mike Babcock encouraged the two young players to focus. "Leivo's real good on the cycle and can flat-out score," Babcock said. "The issue always is: Can he get up and down the rink quick enough? We'll watch and see. Gauthier's a great big man, 6-foot-5, 235 pounds, every shift. He just has to play like you're that big. Be good in the circle, be good with the puck." Toronto is 1-1-2 through four games of a five-game homestand and is 9-5-2 at Air Canada Centre this season.

Ducks projected lineup
Maple Leafs projected lineup
Status Report

Gardiner did not participate in the morning skate. He is ill, but likely to play, Babcock said. Bozak and Smith each are day to day.

Who's hot

Rakell has eight points (five goals, three assists) on a five-game point streak. Getzlaf has five points (one goal, four assists) on a four-game streak. … Matthews has eight goals in his past 11 games. Gardiner, who scored the winning goal in a 2-1 overtime victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, has two goals and three assists on a five-game point streak. Andersen has allowed two goals or fewer in 11 of his past 12 starts.