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Forward | ES | PP | PK | Tot |
Schriner | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
Morenz | 14 | 4 | 1 | 19 |
Kurri | 12 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
Krutov | 14 | 2 | 16 | |
Sakic | 13 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
Bure | 12 | 1 | 13 | |
Lehtinen | 9 | 3 | 12 | |
Fedorov | 11 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
Dillon | 11 | 2 | 13 | |
J. Holik | 10 | 10 | ||
Giroux | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
Kucherov | 11 | 1 | 12 |
Defencemen | ES | PP | PK | Tot |
Salming | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
Bourque | 16 | 4 | 4 | 24 |
D. Potvin | 15 | 4 | 4 | 23 |
S. Weber | 16 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
Keith | 15 | 2 | 17 | |
Numminen | 12 | 2 | 14 |
Forwards | ||||
Player | ES | PP | PK | Total |
T. Lindsay | 14 | 4 | 18 | |
M. Messier | 14 | 3 | 3 | 20 |
C. Conacher | 14 | 4 | 18 | |
A. Firsov | 12 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
N. Lalonde | 14 | 4 | 18 | |
V. Martinec | 14 | 3 | 17 | |
F. Foyston | 15 | 15 | ||
H. Smith | 10 | 4 | 14 | |
M. Hossa | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
R. Nash | 5 | 5 | ||
J. Thornton | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
D. Taylor | 7 | 7 | ||
TOTAL | 138 | 25 | 14 | 177 |
Defense | ||||
Player | ES | PP | PK | Total |
P. Pilote | 20 | 3 | 23 | |
D. Clapper | 17 | 1 | 4 | 22 |
I. Johnson | 18 | 3 | 21 | |
A. MacInnis | 16.5 | 5 | 1.5 | 23 |
J. Schoenfeld | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
L. Murphy | 9.5 | 1 | 1.5 | 12 |
TOTAL | 92 | 10 | 14 | 116 |
Coach: Joel Quenneville
Sid Abel --- Syl Apps --- Bernie Geoffrion
Nels Stewart --- Bobby Clarke (C) --- Boris Mikhailov (A)
Brad Marchand --- Frank Nighbor --- Jarome Iginla
Esa Tikkanen --- Ryan Getzlaf --- Claude Lemieux
Sprague Cleghorn --- Chris Chelios (A)
Bill Gadsby --- Drew Doughty
Ulf Samuelsson --- Alex Pietrangelo
Dominik Hasek
Roy Worters
PP1: Cleghorn - Geoffrion- Stewart - Apps - Mikhailov
PP2: Gadsby - Doughty - Nighbor - Clarke - Iginla
PK1 - Gadsby - Chelios - Nighbor - Tikkanen
Pk2 - Samuelsson - Pietrangelo - Clarke - Marchand
RB, you generally build a team that is somewhat "outside the box" and you've done it again here.
LW | C | RW | Sum |
87.3 | 92.4 | 89.9 | 269.6 |
90.3 | 90.4 | ??? | 180.7 |
83.8 | ??? | 86.7 | 170.5 |
Coach: Lester Patrick
Ted Lindsay (A) - Mark Messier (C) - Charlie Conacher
Anatoli Firsov - Newsy Lalonde - Vladimir Martinec
Frank Foyston - Hooley Smith - Marian Hossa
Rick Nash - Joe Thornton - Dave Taylor
Pierre Pilote - Dit Clapper (A)
Ivan Johnson - Al MacInnis
Jim Schoenfeld - Larry Murphy
Martin Brodeur
Andrei Vasilevskiy
PP1
Lindsay - Lalonde - Thornton
Conacher - MacInnis
PP2
Firsov - Messier - Martinec
Murphy/Clapper - Pilote
PK1
Smith - Hossa
Schoenfeld - Clapper
PK2
Messier - Firsov
I. Johnson - MacInnis/Murphy
Extra PK F: Foyston
Another creative entry- and props for getting this up onto the Assassination Board right away. Respect.miami VICE
We don't have Lemieux-Beliveau this year... but we have Gretzky-Trottier, which looks like the strongest central one-two spine in the League this year.
Wherein we examine-Laval Rocket
Another creative entry- and props for getting this up onto the Assassination Board right away. Respect.
Evaluation follows:
Coach Glen Sather- was there ever going to be any other?! Fine for what you're looking to accomplish. Will do little harm, much good.
Leadership- Present, but (I'd argue) just simply not properly allocated. Bergeron's been a quality Captain, post-Chara. Suppose Robinson is fine as an 'A.' I love Lindros, think he's under-rated/under-valued, but I think you got about five guys on your roster I'd be more comfortable giving an 'A' to than him. [Peter Stastny has been a Captain, too- just not a particularly effective one.] In a ten-team league, Leadership is ordinary, at best.
First Line: Kariya-Lindros-Jagr will be formidable, when healthy. Contrary to Legion-of-Doom lore, Lindros doesn't need everyone on his line to be heavy-cycle capable. Besides, if you want to play that game, you could use Bobby Hull shift-poaching to work that strategy in. All three elements of the line can pass [Lindros IS an underrated passer], and (obviously) all three can shoot. Just be sure to send your "Letter-of-Concern" to the ATD-OPPF Committee on Player Safety, hope that Kariya & Lindros don't go out of the lineup at the same time, and for G_d's sake take down your statement of intended use for Billy Smith, before someone takes a screen shot of it, and brings THAT text to the Committee(!)
Second Line: Bo. Hull-Modano-Br. Hull... Bobby Hull is such luxury-casting on the 2nd Line, and squads have to construct game-plans around mitigating his impact. That's somewhat offset by the fact that Modano is bargain-casting as a 10-player draft OPPF #2C. Brett Hull can fill up nets, as well... but he's such an even-strength defensive black-hole that puck-possession should be prioritized. I don't think Sather's going to be the one to bring out the vestigial defensive conscience buried within- it'll be up to his teammates.
Third Line: B.A. Gustafsson-P. Stastny-M. Stastny-- it was inspired to unite the Stastnys- and I like the move a lot. I've noted that we're selling Gustafsson as a swiss-army-knife type. [One of those WILL be handy with the miss-time capabilities of Lindros & Kariya.] Still, it'll be up to you to explain how this player, drafted only once in the 12-team era, belongs here in a 10 team paradigm. I'll also be interested in hearing how this line will handle it if they get put on the defensive.
Fourth Line: C. Ramsay-Bergeron-J. Walker: just an old-school, skate-in-quicksand, drag-to-play-against Checking Line. I like it- could see this line being "rolled" for more minutes that we'd typically expect from a 4th line, and have the potential to be inspirational to the rest of the roster (who will benefit from the extra oxygen they'll absorb while this crew does its thing).
Defense- oh yeah, right... the Defense-
Did I ever mention that I am really NOT a fan of two letters on the same line, or the same defensive pairing? That's okay, there's a way out of this- even if you insist of having your top two Ds keeping their letters.
Coffey-Robinson: two great bilateral Defencemen being bilateral together. (That didn't come out right, did it?!) Still, I think this is a dream you may have to let go. You see, ALL of your Ds are L-handed shots. {What is it about these Southeastern Teams and all LHS Defencemen?!?} and I think there's something to be said to assigning both of them to R-side duty on different pairings. [It's reported that Robinson preferred being on the L-side... but in this case, he should consider taking one for the team.] If you do that, you'll wriggle out of a laterality-botch.
Stanley-Leetch: Right now, you have Stanley as a casting-stretch, and Leetch laterality-botched. Best thing that can be said for this is that Stanley has an excellent chance of being well-in-zone should Leetch get caught up-ice.
Niedermayer-Kasatonov: pretty sporty for a 3rd-pairing. Still, both known more for their offense, and also (of course) both LHSs.
Maybe try instead-
Leetch-Robinson (with reduced Special Teams responsibilities, Leetch should be up to first-pairing minutes).
Niedermayer-Coffey (again with the offense, but you're going to wind up with an offensively oriented pairing, no matter what. Maybe you can shelter their minutes).
Stanley-Kasatonov [if Stanley stays on the 2nd pairing, it'll be worthy of the "e" word (eyesore).]
(Honestly, I see a way you could pitch Stanley with add-drop & keep the Coffey-Robinson dream alive...)
Sawchuk- upper level Goaltender in this league. Had him lined up at 75, you scooped him with pick 73. ["Now you get anachronistic on me!" I thought.] Billy Smith is fine in backup role.
Power Play- A 1/1a construct. Might like the second Unit more than the first.
Penalty Kill- Love it up top, feeling kind of "meh" about it down low. [Testament to the strength of a 10-team league, and also to less prioritization on the D side of the roster.]
Summary- congratulations for having all your players on-hand for an early start to Hockey's equivalent to OTAs. I always confer extra-credit for putting one's team on-the-line in the Assassination Thread- the more detailed, the better. I at the very least like (and in many cases love) just about all the Forwards. The rear-guardsmen are not of the same level- but if you're as committed to attending to the mental health of Sawchuk as I'm committed to maintaining the sobriety of Benedict & Krutov*, then no one can impugn your last line of defense.
*[O.G.s Special Announcement- any "Binny's" gift cards (or other ETOH-oriented presents) mailed to Messrs. Benedict or Krutov will be intercepted unopened by O.G. staff. The outer envelope will be signed by the GM and Coach Shero, and the material(s) shall be auctioned, with the proceeds going to charities dedicated to helping the victims of sexual predation. Mr. Keith will be responsible for deliveries of the proceeds.]
No, it's not. Even though Abel-Apps-Geoffrion is three strikes on "The Bill Cook Standard," it doesn't have a ravine like Robitaille on it. It IS bottom-three, though.The 1st line is likely the weakest in the draft, but that's bound to happen when your 3rd best center is on the 1st line.
Now THAT judgement (on the Marchand-Nighbor-Iginla line) is a statistically-supportable conclusion.You have the best 3rd line in the draft, and it mimics the real life Marchand - Bergeron - Pastrnak line, but with Iginla providing the extra toughness/bodyguard that you want with Nighbor. One of my favorite lines of the draft.
Re: Stewart-Clarke-Mikhailov... if they were just a set of statistics you put into a computer simulation, I'd agree that they're solid. However, Clarke (that most unapologetic of competitors from the Summit Series) and Mikhailov (that most bitter of rivals from the same event) cooperating on a line together feels like one "weird science" chemistry experiment. I don't know if there's an alternative. If we flex Iginla up to the 2nd line, Marchand loses HIS bodyguard. One thing I WOULD do- and that's give an 'A' to Iginla.Clarke - Mikhailov are a solid combo on the 2nd line, I need a refresher on the case for Nels Stewart at LW, so I'll refrain from commenting on that aspect.
And with that, now's as good a time to address the elephant-in-the-room, and acknowledge that Edmonton went all-in on pestilence this year. Clarke is right there with Messier & Prime Harvey for being next-level sneaky-dirty. It's a skill-of-sorts, in itself- and (as my own Coach famously said) "18 choir-boys never won the Stanley Cup, and probably never will." However, the lineup is filled with irritation- Clarke, Marchand, Chelios, Cleghorn (who's even capable of breaking an axle in the playoffs*), Tikkanen, C. Lemieux, U. Samuelsson. This WILL be the most penalized team this season. [*If subject to modern psychiatric diagnosis, Cleghorn seems to present as someone with Intermittent Explosive Disorder.]Defense is solid, I'd say neither a strength or a weakness. 1st pair has a lot of nastiness. Samuelsson is a bit weak on the bottom pairing.
Yeah.Elite goaltending with Hasek
One thing I noticed about Quenneville- and relieved to see it's consistent with my memory- and that's Chicago was among the better 3 to 4 in-the-league for Power Play Opportunities Against in the Championship Years. Favorable PPoA stats ain't gonna happen here.Quenneville is a solid coach
The top line is fantastic and awful to play against. My only question is are Messier and Lindsay good enough playmakers to give Conacher the best oppourtunity to score? Lindsay has a lot of good finishes, but did play with Howe which definitely would juice the numbers a bit. Overall a good line however.
As you know, I always love the detail you bring to your Assassination Thread Roster Presentations. I believe you deserve extra credit for your additional documentation. This is a really nice team on many levels- but not without a flaw or two. Let's look in a bit...
Thanks for the assassination.And now for our other Southeastern entry...
We don't have Lemieux-Beliveau this year... but we have Gretzky-Trottier, which looks like the strongest central one-two spine in the League this year.
Leadership- Toe Blake is a podium-level coach, full stop. Gretzky will be the Captain on about any team for whom he's playing. I've already riffed on my reluctance to have two letters on the same line, right? I'd pass Toe Blake's 'A' to Pronger. Leadership very good- perhaps top-drawer counting the Blake-as-coach effect.
Offense--
Toe Blake-Gretzky-Makarov: count me among the people who were a little surprised you didn't plump for the other Montreal LW. Guess you wanted a defensive conscience more than you wanted a corner-battler. At any rate, VsX/7 fans should love the funhouse numbers generated between Gretzky & Makarov. Weird thing about Toe Blake (the player) I observed in the waning moments of the HoH top-100 project- he didn't feast on weakened war-years, statistically, to NEARLY the degree I would have expected. It was to the point that if he actually served like Abel, Schmidt, R. Conacher... I would have extrapolated numbers higher than the real ones, and have rated him higher. I don't know, maybe during that time he was all-in on chance-suppression and risk-mitigation(?)
Mahovlich-Trottier-Bathgate: I really like this line. Last year, I'd mated Mahovlich to Messier & Iginla on my acclaimed "Thunder Line." @zffssk gave it the thumbs-up by saying that it's a tricky thing to get a suitable Center for Mahovlich- asserting that Messier worked as a kind of hybrid between Red Kelly (as a Center) & Beliveau. Well, what's Trottier? He's like Messier- scarcely less physical, at least as offensively talented... just without the longevity. Bathgate's underrated- not quite the 'Rodney Dangerfield' that Iginla is (amongst the list-makers), but he won't miss a damn shift. [Edit- candidate for best 2nd line this year, I think.]
Elias-Schmidt-Perry: Steady-as-she-goes, with Perry providing the added irritation factor. [I like irritation as a seasoning, NOT as a main course. More on that in another review.]
Ga. Roberts-Kopitar-Broadbent: The Defensively-Oriented guardian-line. All right for what it does.
It's OPPF Southeast, so it's (once again) time for... oh, by-the-way-- Defense. To lock up so much Scoring Line offense, we have to pay a price somewhere. Here's where the fee gets assessed.
Pronger-Howe: Pronger was good value where picked, Mark Howe felt like a bit of an overpay (this coming from someone who might well have really overpaid on Weber, granted), but let's look at the numbers- Pronger is ranked #18 on the "Top-100" list, which is consistent with a worthy first-pairing defenseman (but on the low-end). Mark Howe comes in at position #33, which is like a mid-range 2nd pairing talent.
Suchy-Quackenbush: We'll set aside HoH rankings (for a second) & instead focus on my fan-boy perspective of Suchy. I have Suchy as a Top-20 defenceman, all-time. This opinion is shared by, well... no-one (outside the Czech Republic). Based on our respective History Lists, Quackenbush checks in at #44. Pace Van, this DOESN'T mean he doesn't belong on a 2nd pairing. The biggest problem here is that you've consigned Suchy to an LD-slot, a role he didn't typically fill in real life. We're also talking about two Ds best known for their O.
I wouldn't play Suchy as an LD. Just wouldn't do it. If Suchy was moved to RD, and mated with a mid-20s LD (like Gerard, for instance), then it would totally work for me. I don't know if it would work for the preponderance of the observers who have Suchy just barely sketching into the Top-50 Ds, All-Time.
I don't know if you can add-drop your way out of this.
Moose Johnson-Gonchar: Moose Johnson is a quality third-pairing guy. He's joined by Gonchar, whom I thought would help earn his roster-spot by providing Power Play help.
No, huh?
Finally, just like Miami, Richmond has an entire sextet of LHS Defencemen.
Special Teams- I'll withhold judgement on the Power Play- as I expect that Bathgate listed on both PP1 & PP2 was a misprint. And no Gonchar on PP is unusual enough [absent PP contributions, Gonchar's sort of a crevasse (at this level)], but no Suchy?!?
Penalty-Kill- your options are a little constrained by the Ds available... bit I'd consider reducing some of Trottier's Special Teams use, one way or another. I think PP1 & PK1 is a little too robust an ask in a 10-team league.
Goaltending- Glenn Hall is upper-half. This season, he might even be podium (in the Regular Season). Pekka Rinne is as much as you could ask for out of a back-up.
Summary- A Team that has a chance of putting up some real Pinball Wizard points. They look like they'll play it pretty clean-and-straight (which means they might be more likely to be on the PP than the Kill). Still, Coach Blake has a few decisions to make- and some of them won't be easy.
This team is definitely built around the back-end. Bourque and Potvin is (I believe) the best 1-2 in the league in my opinion, and Keith is a solid fit in a third pairing role here. I also think the other players compliment them in their roles well. Numminen is a bit of a cheap option, but you're strong enough 1-5 that I don't think that's a serious concern.Hammond(Indiana)Organ® Grinders
Coach-Fred Shero
#11 Sweeney Schriner-#7 Howie Morenz-#17 Jari Kurri
#9 Vladimir Krutov-#19 Joe Sakic (A)-#10 Pavel Bure
#26 Jere Lehtinen-#91 Segei Fedorov-#24 Cecil Dillon
#20 Jiří Holík-#28 Claude Giroux-#86 Nikita Kucherov
#21 Börje Salming-#77 Raymond Bourque (A)
#5 Denis Potvin (C)-#6 Shea Weber
#2 Duncan Keith-#27 Teppo Numminen
#1 Clint BenedictPP1: Giroux-Morenz-Krutov
#30 Hugh Lehman
Bourque-Weber
PP2: Kurri-Sakic-Schriner
Potvin-Fedorov
(spare PPers- Bure, Kucherov)
PK1: Lehtinen-Fedorov
Potvin-Bourque
PK2: Sakic-Dillon
Keith-Numminen
(spare PKers- Salming, Weber, Morenz, Kurri)
I'm not going to go line by line here. Apps is the weakest 1C in the draft, but that was a trade off you make with Clarke and Nighbor. Love the third line, and I love the fourth line.
Coach: Joel Quenneville
Sid Abel --- Syl Apps --- Bernie Geoffrion
Nels Stewart --- Bobby Clarke (C) --- Boris Mikhailov (A)
Brad Marchand --- Frank Nighbor --- Jarome Iginla
Esa Tikkanen --- Ryan Getzlaf --- Claude Lemieux
Sprague Cleghorn --- Chris Chelios (A)
Bill Gadsby --- Drew Doughty
Ulf Samuelsson --- Alex Pietrangelo
Dominik Hasek
Roy Worters
PP1: Cleghorn - Geoffrion- Stewart - Apps - Mikhailov
PP2: Gadsby - Doughty - Nighbor - Clarke - Iginla
PK1 - Gadsby - Chelios - Nighbor - Tikkanen
Pk2 - Samuelsson - Pietrangelo - Clarke - Marchand
Look - let's just put the elephant in the room up front. You have Bobby Clarke, Brad Marchand, Esa Tikkanen, Claude Lemieux, Sprague Cleghorn, Chris Chelios, and Ulf Samuelsson. You're going to be a "tough" team to play against.
You're also going to spend half of the game short handed.
No, it's not. Even though Abel-Apps-Geoffrion is three strikes on "The Bill Cook Standard," it doesn't have a ravine like Robitaille on it. It IS bottom-three, though.Now THAT judgement (on the Marchand-Nighbor-Iginla line) is a statistically-supportable conclusion.Re: Stewart-Clarke-Mikhailov... if they were just a set of statistics you put into a computer simulation, I'd agree that they're solid. However, Clarke (that most unapologetic of competitors from the Summit Series) and Mikhailov (that most bitter of rivals from the same event) cooperating on a line together feels like one "weird science" chemistry experiment. I don't know if there's an alternative. If we flex Iginla up to the 2nd line, Marchand loses HIS bodyguard. One thing I WOULD do- and that's give an 'A' to Iginla.And with that, now's as good a time to address the elephant-in-the-room, and acknowledge that Edmonton went all-in on pestilence this year. Clarke is right there with Messier & Prime Harvey for being next-level sneaky-dirty. It's a skill-of-sorts, in itself- and (as my own Coach famously said) "18 choir-boys never won the Stanley Cup, and probably never will." However, the lineup is filled with irritation- Clarke, Marchand, Chelios, Cleghorn (who's even capable of breaking an axle in the playoffs*), Tikkanen, C, Lemieux, U. Samuelsson. This WILL be the most penalized team this season. [*If subject to modern psychiatric diagnosis, Cleghorn seems to present as someone with Intermittent Explosive Disorder.]
Open question is- can irritation be a skill one can rely upon, at this level?! I kind of view it like the willfully obnoxious "table-talker" in Poker, who can put less-experienced players on tilt, and cash in on "yum-yum." When at the table with people who have 7-figure net-worth because of their Poker-skill, that craft doesn't translate as well.Yeah.One thing I noticed about Quenneville- and relieved to see it's consistent with my memory- and that's Chicago was among the better 3 to 4 in-the-league for Power Play Opportunities Against in the Championship Years. Favorable PPoA stats ain't gonna happen here.
Best- 3rd Line
At-or-near-best: Goaltending
Chance for being at-or-near-best: 2nd line, if Clarke & Mikhailov embrace glasnost
Reverse-podium: 1st line
Bottom- Penalties Against
Thanks- and a hat-tip for that comment. I think pride-of-place among 1-2 Ds goes to Laval's Fetisov-Harvey... but they're on the same pairing. This year, I decided to take a page out of the book of @zffssk and go with an A-C, B-D set-up at defense. 60 minutes in the game- 45 of them, opponents of Hammond will be dealing with either Bourque, or Potvin. One snipe, though- to call Duncan Keith "solid" on the third-pairing is kind of like the Aston-Martin DB-S brochure not providing a number for the engine horsepower- simply saying it's "adequate." Of course, the DB-S engine is more than "adequate," and Duncan Keith on a third-paring is more than "solid."This team is definitely built around the back-end. Bourque and Potvin is (I believe) the best 1-2 in the league in my opinion, and Keith is a solid fit in a third pairing role here. I also think the other players complement them in their roles well. Numminen is a bit of a cheap option, but you're strong enough 1-5 that I don't think that's a serious concern.
Yes- even by my own reckoning, Benedict is "reverse-podium" material among starters. Taken as a quick-and-dirty calculation, the average Goaltending here is going to have a "Stanford Composite" of 99.3. Benedict comes in at 98.7. [This is under the flash-assumption that there have been roughly 800 Goaltenders in Hockey History who have played in the upper-tier.] Benedict was no worse than the 2nd greatest Goaltender of his era- and his era included Vezina, Worters, Lehman, Hainsworth...You're going to need that D too, because Benedict is on the bottom tier of starters.
In the last draft, I had a mutter-and-curse as @scrappylilnobody snarfed Schriner in front of me. And why wouldn't he be coveted? His 7year VsX is 91.3 That's well north of Kariya, north of Bucyk and north of Busher Jackson. [And unlike those luminaries, he didn't exactly have a Selanne or a Conacher to help him out on what was otherwise a pretty hapless Amerks squad.]I don't think Schriner is a guy I love on the top line in this format.
As would be predictable, I kind of like my eclectic bottom-6. As third-liners, Fedorov is upper-half, Cecil Dillon (in spite of being a 21st round pick) is upper-half, so the only thing that could lead to the whole line being nerf-sticked out of (at least) the middle of the pack would be a brickbat aimed at Lehtinen. Maybe I'm only joined by @Habsfan18 on this one- but Lehtinen continues to be under-appreciated. I could only find NHL-wide Corsi/Fenwick from Lehtinen's age 34 year onwards- but Lehtinen was Corsi-event positive, both objectively and relative to his team, in both his age 34 year and his penultimate season. I guess it's really eye-test memories with me... but if he had that kind of impact near the very end, imagine what he was doing when he was a perennial Selke finalist. Even though he wasn't putting points in HIS column, he was doing a fantastic job of keeping opponents from putting points in THEIR column. Kind of like an anti-matter universe version of Brett Hull. One of the key points of these 3rd/4th lines is- absorb-and-counter. We know Fedorov can get up-ice in a hurry. So can Kucherov. Fedorov can break on his own if there's an opening- Giroux can thread a pass if HE has an opening. There's also the contributions of the D in this regard.I *know* I don't love Lehtinen as a third liner (although I know why he goes there). He is providing zero offense from that position, and with my views on Fedorov, I feel like your third is more like a pure checking line rather than a two-way line that I prefer. I don't think Dillon is nearly enough to make up for that relevant discrepancy. But then you have your fourth... Giroux is fine(?) defensively, but Kucherov is not a checking line player. But Holik is. But this line is getting 10 minutes a night, and lines that are there to generate offense you generally want to have more of.
Coach: Joel Quenneville
Sid Abel --- Syl Apps --- Bernie Geoffrion
Nels Stewart --- Bobby Clarke (C) --- Boris Mikhailov (A)
Brad Marchand --- Frank Nighbor --- Jarome Iginla
Esa Tikkanen --- Ryan Getzlaf --- Claude Lemieux
Sprague Cleghorn --- Chris Chelios (A)
Bill Gadsby --- Drew Doughty
Ulf Samuelsson --- Alex Pietrangelo
Dominik Hasek
Roy Worters
PP1: Cleghorn - Geoffrion- Stewart - Apps - Mikhailov
PP2: Gadsby - Doughty - Nighbor - Clarke - Iginla
PK1 - Gadsby - Chelios - Nighbor - Tikkanen
Pk2 - Samuelsson - Pietrangelo - Clarke - Marchand