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Team was scheduled to be on the ice yesterday? Anybody get a look or was it not open to the public?
Would love to hear some first impressions. Who looks different and whatnot.
As long as they're in Brandon, it's open to the public. Am typing up my impressions right now as I caught part of Saturday and a good bit of today's TC.
Will post it in the Training Camp thread.
I dunno we all said the same about the Caps in years past. “Windows closing” can be managed.This I think is the year we have to win the cup it’s truly now or probably never or at least not for a long time. Next offseason we have like 14 million in cap space with only 12 players signed and point is going to get 4-5 million of that on a bridge deal contract. Then the year after we probably have to at least double vasy’s cap hit. Yes we will probably pawn Callahan off to another team but then we lose more draft picks and probably a decent prospect to get a team to take on Callahan for his last season like we did with Garrison to Vegas. What has me worried is after this season we only got three defenseman signed sergachev, hedman and mcdonagh. Do we resign stralman now or wait and see what karlsson is going to do next July ?
Palat - Stamkos - Kuch
Miller - Point - Joseph
Erne - Johnson - Gourde
Killorn - Cirelli - Conacher
I would separate Point and Joseph, simply because they're both so good at zone entries. So I'd go with something like:
Miller - Stamkos - Kucherov (until Miller fizzles out)
Palat - Point - Gourde (PPG line)
Erne - Johnson - Joseph
Killorn - Cirelli - X (Still not sure Conacher makes the team.)
Wouldn't mind reuniting Joseph - Johnson - Gourde (from Game #1) either. They looked pretty dangerous, and their skillsets complement each other nicely.
How many games this season do you think Johnson plays 3C - vs- 2W?
I thought he dragged azz during the regular season at 3C, then came back to life in a top 6 wing role... for a while.
Either way, its a long season, my money is on him going back and forth throughout the year. (ends up around 25 - 25+ = 50+)
I’m surprised we didn’t move a forward for a defenseman this offseason we have so manyPalat - Stamkos - Kuch
Miller - Point - Joseph
Erne - Johnson - Gourde
Killorn - Cirelli - Conacher
I’m surprised we didn’t move a forward for a defenseman this offseason we have so many
Kind of feels like we are hoarders.I'm guessing we tried pretty hard.
Our top-9 is kind of ridiculous though. ...Well, even our fourth line right now used to be our 3rd line.
I would separate Point and Joseph, simply because they're both so good at zone entries. So I'd go with something like:
Miller - Stamkos - Kucherov (until Miller fizzles out)
Palat - Point - Gourde (PPG line)
Erne - Johnson - Joseph
Killorn - Cirelli - X (Still not sure Conacher makes the team.)
Wouldn't mind reuniting Joseph - Johnson - Gourde (from Game #1) either. They looked pretty dangerous, and their skillsets complement each other nicely.
They've had decent chemistry in the past (2016 playoffs) , not so much last year, but both were in a smaller role then usual with less ice time when they were together, which is a big factor. I'd still rather Killorn in that third line spot over Erne, who's barely shown any offence at this level at all.I think that was more because Johnson and Killorn have likely the worst chemistry on the team. Keep those two apart and we should be fine. But we'll mix lines up multiple times anyway.
Not a fan of splitting up depth for the sake of it, the team will be carried by the top-2 lines anyways so weakening those for marginal increase in depth won't help. Johnson has regressed as a center unless placed in the perfect situation with perfect linemates, his effectiveness as a winger to Point was significantly higher. Gourde and Cirelli looked better as a center than Johnson did last year. Load up the top-6 as they should be and let the talent on the bottom 6 figure themselves out. I don't have faith Erne's offensive game picks up out of nowhere and he'll actually bring down the 3rd line if placed there.
Miller-Stamkos-Kucherov
Palat-Point-Johnson
Killorn-Gourde-Conacher/Cirelli (no one remembers how strong this line was when together?)
Erne-Paquette-Joseph
Concaher/Joseph/Erne split as the 13th
Gourde and Cirelli can be either C or RW on that 3rd line
I hope
It's Carolina wearing Hartford jerseys two times this year.Might be us due to playing in Orlando