First of all, I think lines are going to change a lot early in the season. But I’ll throw these out anyway…
Razor - Larkin - ADB
Fabbri - Compher - Perron
Sprong - Copp - Berggren
Fischer - Ras - Kostin
Veleno/Kasper
Seider - Walman
Ghost - Holl
Maatta - Chiarot
Lindstrom/(Edvinsson)
Husso
Lyon/Reimer (pick 'em, but I’d rather run with Lyon)
I could see several combinations of the first line. I don’t prefer Perron there but guessing Lalonde will give it a shot, too. Guessing the top 6 should end up modestly stable, though, since they’ll probably all spend a lot of time on the PP and we may want to come back with a tough line thereafter to combat a team fresh off a kill. Likewise for Copp/Fischer/Ras/Kostin on the PK, though, we may get some Larkin time there, too, situationally. I really liked how we we deploying regular linemates on the PK a bit last year (larks/razor, e.g.), but it didn’t stick. While it worked for chemistry, surely we’d rather save guys like that for ES and PP time.
Defensively could be hard to say. A chiarot-Holl pair gives me some pause, but I really like the idea of Ghost and Maatta, so hopefully we get to see that at points. But we got a lot of Maatta-Chiarot to close out last year so guessing we see a bit more of it. Seider-Walman seems like it’s theirs to lose and only may get disrupted depending on how the PP plays out, since seider, Walman, Ghost all likely spending some time there.
First of all, I think lines are going to change a lot early in the season. But I’ll throw these out anyway…
Razor - Larkin - ADB
Fabbri - Compher - Perron
Sprong - Copp - Berggren
Fischer - Ras - Kostin
Veleno/Kasper
Seider - Walman
Ghost - Holl
Maatta - Chiarot
Lindstrom/(Edvinsson)
Husso
Lyon/Reimer (pick 'em, but I’d rather run with Lyon)
I could see several combinations of the first line. I don’t prefer Perron there but guessing Lalonde will give it a shot, too. Guessing the top 6 should end up modestly stable, though, since they’ll probably all spend a lot of time on the PP and we may want to come back with a tough line thereafter to combat a team fresh off a kill. Likewise for Copp/Fischer/Ras/Kostin on the PK, though, we may get some Larkin time there, too, situationally. I really liked how we we deploying regular linemates on the PK a bit last year (larks/razor, e.g.), but it didn’t stick. While it worked for chemistry, surely we’d rather save guys like that for ES and PP time.
Defensively could be hard to say. A chiarot-Holl pair gives me some pause, but I really like the idea of Ghost and Maatta, so hopefully we get to see that at points. But we got a lot of Maatta-Chiarot to close out last year so guessing we see a bit more of it. Seider-Walman seems like it’s theirs to lose and only may get disrupted depending on how the PP plays out, since seider, Walman, Ghost all likely spending some time there.