If you were Q. (Ideal lines with Hossa out.)

[TeddyGoalsevelt]

With Hossa out, what would your lines look like?

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[SAADfather]

Sekac/Panik - Toews - TT
I think we all know this line
Shaw - Danault - Sekac/Panik
Desi - Ras - Mashinter

I'd like to see Sekac get the first shake on the top line. Very unlikely though. Shaw seems like he's stapled there at this point. If Hossa is out 5+ games, I wouldnt be shocked to see Dano get the call. From what i've heard he's been a lot more effective in Rockford as of recently. Feburary injury opened the door for TT to get into the lineup last year.

 

[JaegerDice]

Sekac - Toews - TT
Panarin - Anisimov - Kane
Shaw - Danault - Desi
Panik - ??? - ???

Ideally, they'd call somebody else up for Ras because he's not great, and somebody else for Mashinter because he's even worse. But I guess those two if Q is stubborn about them.

I want to see what Sekac can do with skilled players. He's been a +CF%Rel guy on every team he's been on despite usually getting close to neutral starts. If it doesn't work, move him down the lineup and replace him with Panik, or Shaw, or Desi or whoever.

 

[Sir Loin]

If I were Q, I'd just quit cause I ####n suck and think I'm running some sort of leisure resort.

 

[Sir Loin]

But for real

65-19-86
Not sure
11-70-14
34-24-29/48

Rather see Bickell called up than Dano.

 

[BobbyJet]

Sekac/Panik - Toews - TT
I think we all know this line
Shaw - Danault - Sekac/Panik
Desi - Ras - Mashinter

I'd like to see Sekac get the first shake on the top line. Very unlikely though. Shaw seems like he's stapled there at this point. If Hossa is out 5+ games, I wouldnt be shocked to see Dano get the call. From what i've heard he's been a lot more effective in Rockford as of recently. Feburary injury opened the door for TT to get into the lineup last year.

Yeah. Me too. Sekac definitely looks better than a 4th line player to me. I'd like to see what he can do playing with offensive talent.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Shaw Toews TT
Panarin Anisimov Kane
Sekac Danault Hino
Desjardins Rasmussen Panik

 

[hockeydoug]

 

[ManChild20]

Panik - Toews - TT
Panarin - Arty - Kane
Shaw - Danault - Sekac
Ras - Vinnie - Desi

However you shake it, the bottom lines look very meh to me. That 1LW or even just a solid top 9 LW would make it look a lot better (especially when Hossa gets back).

 

[STC]

I think the Hossa injury could be a blessing in disguise provided its not long term and he recovers fully. When that line has struggled most of the year its always been the LW who took the blame. Q never once pointed the spotlight at Hossa. I had a suspicion early in the season that it was Hossa who was holding that line back. I'm not sure that's true, but I would at least like to see a handful of games with someone else on the RW next to Toews just to see how that line performs.

 

[clydesdale line]

Shaw Toews TT
Panarin Anisimov Kane
Sekac Danault Hino
Desjardins Rasmussen Panik

Switch Panik with Shaw, and those are probably my lines as well. (Cakes I'm good with up there too)

 

[SimpleJack]

I would have given Dano a look now that we have a hole at RW:

Shaw-Toews-Dano
Panarin-AA-Kane
Desjardins-Danault-TT
Sekac-Rasmussen-Panik

 

[SimpleJack]

The radical "temporarily break up the best line in hockey to give Toews another reliable elite talent" idea:

Shaw-Toews-Kane
Panarin-AA-Dano
Desjardins-Danault-TT
Sekac-Rasmussen-Panik

 

[SAADfather]

Here comes the "Dano sucks but I have nothing to back that claim up!!!" crowd....

 

[STC]

Here comes the "Dano sucks but I have nothing to back that claim up!!!" crowd....

I'm not in either camp, but at this point I think the Dano sucks crowd has more evidence supporting their claim than the Dano can play camp.

 

[SAADfather]

I'm not in either camp, but at this point I think the Dano sucks crowd has more evidence supporting their claim than the Dano can play camp.

lol, no.

 

[RememberTheRoar]

lol, no.

Can I second this?