Maple Leafs lineup on New Year's Eve.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will be facing off against the defending Stanley Cup Champions, the Colorado Avalanche, on Saturday night and the Avs are getting a huge boost ahead of tonight's game.

Earlier today the Avalanche activated star forward Nathan MacKinnon off of injured reserve and MacKinnon will in fact be in the lineup for the Avalanche tonight. This will mark MacKinnon's first appearance for the Avalanche since the 5th of December when he appeared to suffer an injury to his rib area.

The Maple Leafs now sit 10 points back of the Boston Bruins who picked up a point with an overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres earlier today, and they will look to close that gap and move closer to the top spot in the Atlantic Division with a win over the Avalanche tonight.

Here is your Leafs lineup for tonight:

Forwards:
Bunting-Matthews-Nylander
Jarnkrok-Tavares-Marner
Kerfoot-Kampf-Engvall
Aston-Reese-Holmberg-Hunt

Defensemen:
Rielly-Liljegren
Giordano-Holl
Brodie-Timmins

Goalies:
Murray
Samsonov