PITTSBURGH—Goaltender James Reimer isn’t the only Maple Leaf poised to make his season debut Wednesday night against the Penguins.

Defenceman Jake Gardiner, sidelined from game action since a Dec. 8 concussion, has been added to the club’s active roster, according to a league web site. Defenceman Korbinian Holzer has been sent down to the AHL Marlies to make room on the squad.

“It’s always exciting to get back with the Leafs,” Gardiner said after Wednesday’s morning skate. “Hopefully we’ll be pretty good this year . . . I feel good. I’m just waiting on what the doctor says and what Randy says.”

For Leafs coach Randy Carlyle, Gardiner’s status was just another moving part in a personnel picture that, two games into the 48-game season, has been constantly in flux. It was only a little more than two weeks ago when Carlyle considered his lineup and pronounced the only strategic certainty he could think of.

“It would be foolish of me to say that (Joffrey) Lupul and (Phil) Kessel are not going to play with each other,” the coach said of his incumbent first-line wingers. “That would be the only thing etched in stone at this time.”

Sixteen days and two games later, that which was carved in granite appears to be as permanent as a scribble on the back of a napkin.

At Wednesday’s morning skate, where Carlyle put his team through the paces in advance of a 7 p.m. game against the 2-0 Penguins, the Leafs line combinations looked to be in for an overhaul.

Toronto’s first line, if the morning-skate combinations hold, will stay two-thirds intact. Tyler Bozak will play centre and Kessel will be on the wing. But it will be Clarke MacArthur filling Lupul’s usual spot on the other flank. Lupul, meanwhile, was matched on a line with Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov.

As for the other two lines: Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin and James van Riemsedyk were a trio, as were Jay McClement, Mike Brown and Colton Orr.

Carlyle spoke of a variety of reasons he might make the change. The Leafs have scored just three goals in their first two games, so more offence is required. And Carlyle, too, was anticipating that Penguins coach Dan Bylsma, with the last change afforded to the home team, would be fastidious in matching Pittsburgh’s Brandon Sutter-led checking line against the Kessel-Lupul threat. By splitting them up, perhaps Carlyle can create a matchup advantage.

Still, the coach said the combo juggling may or may not hold until puck drop.

“It’s one of the things that’s an option,” said Carlyle. “I could go tonight and just leave the lines exactly the same. Sneaky, huh?”

It wasn’t the only impending change from the opening pair of games. Reimer occupied the visiting net during drills, usually a tell-tale sign that he’ll be the starting goaltender. Ben Scrivens had earned the season’s first two starts — a win in Montreal and a loss at home to the Sabres — on the strength of a strong training camp and an AHL hot streak. If Reimer gets the go-ahead, he’ll make his first NHL appearance in precisely 10 months. He was in net when the Leafs won 4-3 in a shootout in New Jersey way back on Mar. 23.

A day after Carlyle called on van Riemsdyk to spend more time in front of the opposing net, the coach spent part of his morning media availability demanding “more fire” from Grabovski.

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Word of his coach’s public demand seemed to flummox Grabovski.

“Fire? I think I have enough fire . . . I don’t know. I need to think about it,” said the player.

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