Line Combos: Odd men out for Thursday?

[Heaton]

Chuck Pleiness ‏@wingsfrontman 2m2 minutes ago
Weiss, Cleary and Nestrasil wearing gray, an early indication on the outside of the 12 forwards dressing Thursday.

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[SoupNazi]

Weiss out? Seems an odd choice.

 

[Frk It]

Very odd, wonder if they're trying to trade Weiss???

So Sheahan as the 2C to start the season?

Edit- based on numbers... All 3 of them cant be sitting Thursday, right?
14 forwards- 3= 11 So I think Weiss will play.

 

[Flowah]

Who would take Weiss after his last two years and at 4.9m a year?

 

[Heaton]

Very odd, wonder if they're trying to trade Weiss???

So Sheahan as the 2C to start the season?

Datsyuk - Z - Abdelakder (((((((((() is the top line.

Other lines: Nyquist-Helm-Franzen, Tatar-Sheahan-Jurco, Miller-Glendening-Andersson. Cleary, Weiss and Nestrasil seem to be the fifth line.

 

[Frk It]

Wow. Tell us how you really feel about Weiss. Guess that shaky pre-season did mean something.

 

[Frk It]

Who would take Weiss after his last two years and at 4.9m a year?

Can we ship him back to Florida?

 

[Vladdy84]

Gonna play Luke and Joker over Weiss?

Give me a break... Pretty ridiculous.

 

[Heaton]

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 5m5 minutes ago
On D: Ouellet skating with Quincey, Kronwall-Ericsson, DeKeyser-Smith, Lashoff-Kindl. Howard and Gustavsson in net. Mrazek rotating in.

 

[Frk It]

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 5m5 minutes ago
On D: Ouellet skating with Quincey, Kronwall-Ericsson, DeKeyser-Smith, Lashoff-Kindl. Howard and Gustavsson in net. Mrazek rotating in.

Those d pairs =

 

[Vladdy84]

Good to see the D pairings. And having Joker play Wing is silly. Play one of Luke or Joker. Not both...

 

[Ricelund]

Wow. Very surprised Weiss already seems to be on the outs. I wonder if they'll be able to find a taker.

 

[sully6one]

Hopefully they're not rushing Datsyuk (he may of not even been truly injured) and Ouellet playing makes me happy. Need to implement the young guys now so you don't have 3 starting at a time as rookies.

 

[Frk It]

Datsyuk - Z - Abdelakder (((((((((() is the top line.

Other lines: Nyquist-Helm-Franzen, Tatar-Sheahan-Jurco, Miller-Glendening-Andersson. Cleary, Weiss and Nestrasil seem to be the fifth line.

Helm and Abby in the top 6 is not ideal for me, I'd like to keep our bottom 6 guys in the bottom 6.

 

[Vladdy84]

Helm and Abby in the top 6 is not ideal for me, I'd like to keep our bottom 6 guys in the bottom 6.

I don't mind Helm in the Top 6 for now. Gator... Whatever. Hopefully at some point the 4th line can be

Gator-Helm-Luke/Miller

 

[crashman]

I hope their reason for benching Weiss is that they feel he needs more time, not because he's bad at hockey.

...and for you guys taking about trading Weiss, I don't think that's a possibility.

 

[The Geelee]

Weiss might turn out to be Holland's worst signing in his tenure as a GM. $25M dollar mistake

 

[Heaton]

I hope their reason for benching Weiss is that they feel he needs more time, not because he's bad at hockey.

...and for you guys taking about trading Weiss, I don't think that's a possibility.

Anything is possible. Scott Gomez got traded for a #1 defenseman.

 

[Vladdy84]

I think if they wanted to really trade Weiss. They could. Especially to a team near the cap-floor. I find this extremely worrisome if he doesn't play in Game 1.

 

[Frk It]

I think if they wanted to really trade Weiss. They could. Especially to a team near the cap-floor. I find this extremely worrisome if he doesn't play in Game 1.

If he's not healthy and ready now in October after many months off, I don't know when he would be.

 

[Flowah]

I don't mind Helm in the Top 6 for now. Gator... Whatever. Hopefully at some point the 4th line can be

Gator-Helm-Luke/Miller

That 4th line would wreck a lot of other teams.

 

[GoAwayDanCleary]

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 5m5 minutes ago
On D: Ouellet skating with Quincey, Kronwall-Ericsson, DeKeyser-Smith, Lashoff-Kindl. Howard and Gustavsson in net. Mrazek rotating in.

If our top 4 looks like that I have no doubt we'll be a much better team than last year.

 

[Chance on Chance]

Weird about Weiss. D pairing looks nice though and Clearys wearing gray too

 

[Frk It]

It's too bad we didn't keep one of those compliance buyouts.

 

[Ricelund]

Weiss to Nashville for Jarnkrok.