The Maple Leafs aren’t avoiding black cats or walking under ladders as their bad luck with injuries continues.

Both their goaltenders are now on IR with two top-six defencemen, but there was a good sign Saturday morning when Chris Tanev was the first man on the ice for the skate, albeit in a no-contact red jersey.

“Tanny got looked at this week and hopefully it’s good news,” Berube said of his workhorse blueliner, who was stretchered off the ice in Philadelphia five weeks ago with an upper body injury. It was his second after an early-season concussion.

“Hopefully he can get more involved. It was great to see both of them out here (Tanev and defenceman Marshall Rifai, who underwent pre-season wrist surgery).”

That still leaves Brandon Carlo unaccounted for, after the defenceman was hur

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