“They had a menu in their heads,” Michael Nylander told The Athletic on the concourse of Scotiabank Arena in between the second and third period of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Sunday night win over the Utah Hockey Club, which featured the Nylander Bros. playing together for the first time as NHL teammates.

The Maple Leafs take on Utah Sunday, and many fans will be watching to see how brothers William and Alex Nylander play on the same NHL squad. And Adam Proteau says Alex Nylander's road to being a Leaf was far different than star William Nylander's NHL journey.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more heart-warming Toronto Maple Leafs signing this season than Alex Nylander’s one-year pact he inked last week. Getting the chance to play with his older brother, William?

The Nylander brothers aren’t sharing a line, but they did get together for a picture before puck drop. The Maple Leafs posted the image as a quote to a tweet from William in 201