GDT: Canes at Avs: Duchene Hattrick Incoming

[Joe McGrath]

Cory Lavalette says pairings are:

Slavin-Dahlbeck
Fleury-Faulk
Hanifin-TVR


Find a first-line winger to play with Staal

Find a first-pairing defenseman to play with Slavin

Interesting strategy, essentially Slavin just on an island.

 

[GoldiFox]

Cory Lavalette says pairings are:

Slavin-Dahlbeck
Fleury-Faulk
Hanifin-TVR


Find a first-line winger to play with Staal

Find a first-pairing defenseman to play with Slavin

Not totally surprising. Colorado scored the least number of goals since the start of last year. This is as balanced as the lineup can get. Looks like Peters is just eliminating potential weak points and playing it conservative, it tracks with the Brown callup as well.

 

[MinJaBen]

We need Canes GDT Bingo.

1) Power Fail
2) Darling should have had that.
3) Should have traded Hanifin for Duchene
4) Ryan sucks
5) Rask sucks
6) Faulk can't play defense
7) Move Rod upstairs

What else?

Bill Peters takes a time out after an icing.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Cory Lavalette says pairings are:

Slavin-Dahlbeck
Fleury-Faulk
Hanifin-TVR

This is like Be A GM Mode where you have the coach just put the replacement player in the injured player's spot instead of changing all the lines.

 

[MinJaBen]

Interesting strategy, essentially Slavin just on an island.

If he can stay a plus player tonight, we should just trade him to a real team to be nice to him.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

I want to see McFleury as a pair in any of these two games.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Interesting strategy, essentially Slavin just on an island.

I like the concept, though. Keeps any one of the pairings from being totally abused and you can hope Slavin has a good enough game to hold things even while he's on the ice.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I like the concept, though. Keeps any one of the pairings from being totally abused and you can hope Slavin has a good enough game to hold things even while he's on the ice.

Yeah I can see the merit in it. I suspect we will see Slavin play more minutes with one of TVR or Faulk by the end of the night. They sure as shit aren’t playing Dahlbeck 20+ minutes. Last time they didn’t give him 8.

 

[Stickpucker]

Peters conservative what you smoking Willis

 

[AD Skinner]

Maybe this will allow Slavin some more PP time to keep his minutes up/Dahlbeck's down. Couldn't hurt the PP

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Bill Peters takes a time out after an icing.

Not tripisms. Just things we fans would say on this board.

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

RF pulls the trigger 2 hours before game time and trades Faulk straight up for Duchene.

Faulk scores a hat trick with 3 PP smokers from just inside the blue line.

Duchene gets a reverse Gordie Howe hat trick by forgetting he is now a Cane. Wrister through Darling's 5 Hole; passes to Landeskog for a wide open breakway; drops gloves and takes down Staal with a vicious left hook.

Avs win 24 - 0.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I'm confident here. Canes with a 5-2 win.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Why are we taking a guy that couldn't hold his own on the 3rd pairing and giving him top pairing minutes?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Why are we taking a guy that couldn't hold his own on the 3rd pairing and giving him top pairing minutes?

I'm guessing the thought is rather than play Slavin/Faulk 30 minutes, they'll spread the time out more evenly and hope that Slavin can cover Dhalbeck's sins? Not sure how that will work, but I'm guessing that's the rationale. It will probably last no more than 1 period though.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Why are we taking a guy that couldn't hold his own on the 3rd pairing and giving him top pairing minutes?

They need somebody for him to take line rushes with. He’s probably going to play 6 or 7 minutes with Slavin babysitting him.

 

[The Stranger]

Avs win 24 - 0.

Daaaaaa Avs.....

 

[geehaad]

I wouldn't put too much stock in practice.

 

[MinJaBen]

Cory Lavalette says pairings are:

Slavin-Dahlbeck
Fleury-Faulk
Hanifin-TVR


Find a first-line winger to play with Staal

Find a first-pairing defenseman to play with Slavin

Cory's pairing list makes me wonder who of Slavin or Dahlbeck will be playing their off side. He listed them with Slavin on his strong side, but I think an argument could be made that having Slavin play his offside with Dahlbeck playing his strong side is a better pairing than Slavin on his strong side and Dahlbeck on his off side.

 

[The Stranger]

I wouldn't put too much stock in practice.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

74-5-27?

Heh, we better go 5-3.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

LMAO at Slavin having to babysit Dahlbeck.

Poor guy does everything we ask of him and more. Guess this is what happens when you say yes to everything.

 

[tarheelhockey]

LMAO at Slavin having to babysit Dahlbeck.

Poor guy does everything we ask of him and more. Guess this is what happens when you say yes to everything.

It really does make sense as a lineup strategy, though.

- Dahlbeck is probably going to play better hockey next to Slavin, where he will have the cushion to take take some calculated risks, than he would on the bottom pair where every mistake will get exposed. And this could be the basis for finally getting Slavin some PP minutes.
- Fleury will likely play better next to Faulk than he does next to TVR, or at least he will have a more clearly defined role as the safety valve for Faulk’s offensive game, rather than having to be the babysitter for an overwhelmed Dahlbeck.
- Hanifin and TVR are actually a really good bottom pair, if that’s how they are actually deployed.

I mean this isn’t a great lineup or anything, but it’s still NHL-caliber and can be the basis for winning a game with good contributions from the defense.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

It really does make sense as a lineup strategy, though.

- Dahlbeck is probably going to play better hockey next to Slavin, where he will have the cushion to take take some calculated risks, than he would on the bottom pair where every mistake will get exposed. And this could be the basis for finally getting Slavin some PP minutes.
- Fleury will likely play better next to Faulk than he does next to TVR, or at least he will have a more clearly defined role as the safety valve for Faulk’s offensive game, rather than having to be the babysitter for an overwhelmed Dahlbeck.
- Hanifin and TVR are actually a really good bottom pair, if that’s how they are actually deployed.

I mean this isn’t a great lineup or anything, but it’s still NHL-caliber and can be the basis for winning a game with good contributions from the defense.

I agree that it does make sense to insulate Dahlbeck by playing him with our strongest defenseman. I just feel bad for Slavin.

 

[CandyCanes]

Plot twist. Dahlback takes over Pesce's spot seamlessly. We find out Pesce is only good because of Slavin.