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Fans — and maybe some interested Leafs room observers — might never know who’d win a Frederik Andersen-Curtis McElhinney 60-minute match-up.

Toronto’s two goalies were on course to play for their respective countries at the world championships last May in Herning, Denmark; McElhinney for Team Canada, Andersen for the host nation.

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“They rested Freddie, because they wanted to try and get into the quarterfinals,” McElhinney said of the 7-1 win for his team. “So I didn’t get that opportunity.

In a few weeks, it’s back to watching Andersen play another 60-plus games, while McElhinney gets second billing on the second night of consecutive games, with the odd stand-alone start thrown in. Not that the 35-year-old McElhinney is complaining when so many goalies in his role are unhappy around the NHL.

“The biggest thing for me now is to come back and build on the last season and a half I’ve had here. There are some good young guys coming up (led by Marlies’ AHL goalie of the year Garret Sparks, with Kasimir Kaskisuo, Joseph Woll, Ian Scott and Zachary Bouthillier all in their early 20s or younger, plus veteran Calvin Pickard).