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With big roster moves likely done, what do you predict next year's line combinations to be?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that Kostin and Ras and Mazur are going to make it as large body wingers opposite the smaller wingers like Raymond, Berggren and DeBrincat. I have no clue about how the pairings will shake out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DeBrincat - Larkin - Perron

Fabbri - Compher - Raymond

Rasmussen - Copp - Fischer

Kostin - Veleno - Sprong


Walman - Seider

Chiarot - Holl

Määttä - Gostisbehere


Husso

Reimer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Raymond on the second line is a good call, he really needs to earn the top line after last year.

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