Speculation: Your team's 2016-2017 lineup

[HallStar]

What do you think your teams opening night lineup will look like?

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[OvermanKingGainer]

Lance Bouma - Matt Stajan - Garnet Hathaway
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Michael Frolik
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Troy Brouwer
Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Alex Chiasson

Tyler Wotherspoon - Dennis Wideman
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Mark Giordano - TJ Brodie

Chad Johnson
Brian Elliott

2016-17 Calgary Flames

 

[Maurice of Orange]

There's already a thread like this that's sticky.

 

[edguy]

Clarke MacArthur-Derick Brassard-Mark Stone
Mike Hoffman-Kyle Turris-Bobby Ryan
Zach Smith-JG Pageau-Curtis Lazar
Ryan Dzingel-Chris Kelly-Chris Neil

Marc Methot-Erik Karlsson
Dion Phaneuf-Cody Ceci
Mark Boroweicki-Chris Wideman

Craig Anderson
Andrew Hammond

 

[McMatthews]

Lance Bouma - Matt Stajan - Garnet Hathaway
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Michael Frolik
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Troy Brouwer
Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Alex Chiasson

Tyler Wotherspoon - Dennis Wideman
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Mark Giordano - TJ Brodie

Chad Johnson
Brian Elliott

2016-17 Calgary Flames

ugh.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

there is a sticky icky thread like this going on that has been kept very up to date

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Henrik Zetterberg-Dylan Larkin-Justin Abdelkader
Thomas Vanek-Frans Nielsen-Gustav Nyquist
Tomas Tatar-Darren Helm-Reily Sheahan
Steve Ott-Luke Glendening-Drew Miller
Tomas Jurco/Teemu Pulkkinen

Danny DeKeyser-Mike Green
Niklas Kronwall-Alexy Marchenko
Jonathan Ericsson-Brendan Smith
Xavier Ouellet

Petr Mrazek
Jimmy Howard

 

[MarryMarner]

Leo Komarov - Nazem Kadri - Nikita Soshnikov
James van Riemsdyk - Tyler Bozak - Mitchell Marner
Milan Michalek - Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Matt Martin - Brooks Laich - Zach Hyman
Colin Greening

Morgan Rielly - Martin Marincin
Jake Gardiner - Nikita Zaitsev
Matt Hunwick - Roman Polak
Connor Carrick

Frederik Andersen
TBD

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Philadelphia Flyers Line up as of 8-22-16

LW Schenn C Giroux RW Simmonds
LW Raffl C Couturier RW Voracek
LW Laughton C Cousins RW Weise
LW Bellemare C Gordon RW Read

LD Del Zotto RD Gudas
LD MacDonald RD Gostisbehere
LD Schultz RD Streit

G #1 Mason
G #2 Neuvirth

Scratched List
LW VandeVelde
C Weal < could be sent to AHL if he clears waivers.
LD Manning

Could be on opening night roster
LD Provorov
RW-C Konecny

Brayden Schenn suspended first 3 games of 2016-17 season.

 

[SEALBound]

Conor Sheary - Sidney Crosby - Patrick Hornqvist
Chris Kunitz - Evgeni Malkin - Bryan Rust
Carl Hagelin - Nick Bonino - Phil Kessel
Tom Kuhnhackl - Matt Cullen - Eric Fehr

Brian Dumoulin - Kris Letang
Olli Maatta - Trevor Daley
Ian Cole - Justin Schultz
Derrick Pouliot

Marc-Andre Fleury
Matthew Murray

Subject to change, but this is a decent guess.

 

[Braeden]

D.Sedin- H.Sedin- Eriksson
Hudler- Sutter- Hansen
Baerstchi- Horvat- Rodin
Gaunce-Granlund-Etem
x-Dorsett, Virtanen (AHL)

Tanev-Edler
Hutton-Gudbrandson
Sbisa-Larsen
x-Tryamkin, Pedan

Markstrom
Miller

 

[DJJones]

Lance Bouma - Matt Stajan - Garnet Hathaway
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Michael Frolik
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Troy Brouwer
Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Alex Chiasson

Tyler Wotherspoon - Dennis Wideman
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Mark Giordano - TJ Brodie

Chad Johnson
Brian Elliott

2016-17 Calgary Flames

Why did you write upside down? Confused the **** out of me haha.

Like the lines except for Chiasson. "What a hole". I don't really have a better suggestion though.

Shinkaruk, Poirier, or Pribyl. Please one of you guys step up. Poirier would be my dream scenario. Hoping last year was the flukey bad year.

 

[BreakingGood]

The Leafs have so many players, and so few roster locks, it's hard to really have a strong idea. Here's my best shot:

James vanRiemsdyk - Nazem Kadri - Leo Komarov
Nikita Soshnikov - Tyler Bozak - Mitch Marner
Brendan Leipsic - Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Matt Martin - Peter Holland - Zach Hyman

Jake Gardiner - Connor Carrick
Morgan Rielly - Nikita Zaitsev
Martin Marincin - Frank Corrado

Frederik Andersen
Jhonas Enroth

I'll just start by saying that I think given reports out of Sweden, there's a good chance Enroth becomes official whenever the Leafs' cap situation is worked out. I don't know if this is a trade situation, or they'll have to give him a camp invite and sign him once someone's on LTIR, or maybe the Cowen buyout eventually goes through somehow, idk.

So, JVR/Kadri/Komarov did a good job together possession-wise, and I think they maintain that as the top line for some semblance of stability. Babcock said at the draft that they had Matthews on the third line to start the year behind Kadri and Bozak. I'm a little skeptical, but I'll grant him that. I wonder if Nylander and Marner switch centers one way or the other, because Nylander is a slightly more pass first guy, and Bozak really needs a distributor, but it's possible Marner will shoot less/pass more now that he's out of junior, himself. So, we'll see. I'm tempted to switch Martin and Leipsic, because Leipsic ain't a liability defensively, but he's not a defensive conscience. Babcock likes to have a defensive guy/play disruptor, a distributor, and a shooter on every line. Komarov is the disruptor on line one. Soshnikov on line two. Line three, Matthews projects to be good defensively, but he'll be 19. Leipsic is a bit of a pain in the ass, but idk if he's gonna be that guy. Meanwhile, the entire fourth line of Maritn, Holland, and Hyman can play that role, so I could see them switching Leipsic and Martin from what I have, and give a better offensive player to Holland/Hyman, and a better defensive player to Matthews/Nylander. There are other complications here, too. Leivo requires waivers now. But there's also a point where you wonder when he's ever going to fit. I think he's gonna be a 20 goal, 35-40 point guy, a real useful depth scorer, but he hasn't shown enough to get back a real asset, and the team is just so deep with futures right now. He may just be gone. Connor Brown is gonna push for a spot on the right side, and I gave it to Hyman because he's older. Then there's Kerby Rychel, who may even overtake Leipsic, just because his issues in Columbus were opportunity related, and they did go out and trade for him. Hard to see him in the AHL. Babs also isn't Holland's biggest fan, so I could see him as the thirteenth forward, Hyman moved back to center, and Brown on their right wing, in which case, I'd think that makes Martin staying on the fourth line more likely, given Hyman is tall but lanky, and Brown is small, they might wanna balance the size. I personally think Leipsic is a guy who can be a real solid second line winger, and Rychel is probably more of a decent checking third liner. Sorta the difference between... I don't know, Darcy Tucker and Chris Neil, I guess.

As for the defense, Babcock also likes to balance defensive pairings. Given the ice-time allocation from last year, I expect Gardiner is the top LHD, Rielly second, and Marincin third. Marincin and Corrado are very defense-offense balanced. They also, in a limited sample, really caved in opponents in terms of possession. Gardiner and Carrick also did really well together, although to my eyes, they both look pretty good both ways. Rielly and Zaitsev present a problem. Zaitsev is obviously very smooth offensively, but given how much spacing matters in defensive play, I wonder how the smaller ice changes things. If he's not strong defensively, there's nobody to balance just how weak Rielly is defensively. I have faith in his right now, but I'm not the world's biggest fan of Rielly, and if Zaitsev can't cover for him, they'll probably end up on the bottom pairing. Given the roster, and Shanahan's comments about Polak being "more of a depth guy" rather than "a solid number five or six" when they got him the first time, I think one of Hunwick or Polak sits in the press box, the other goes to the Marlies.

I've also left out Greening, Michalek, and Laich. Here's the deal there: I think they try to dump all of them at the soonest possible point, and I'm not really convinced they have the off-season they just had (signing Martin, getting Rychel, pushing hard for Vesey, etc) if they're supposed to play regularly. I could see Greening and Laich being in the lineup over Leipsic/Holland on opening night. But I just can't see any of them going the whole year without being waived, demoted, or traded. Maybe Greening. Had good possession numbers in Toronto, Babcock seems to like him. Idk. Again, this is really difficult, I think there'll be a hundred Leaf posts ITT and nobody, myself included, has much of an idea what we're on about. Maybe the Leaf forum should have some sorta contest to see who can name the most players in the opening night lineup. Then they'll sign Brad Boyes or Jiri Hudler and we'll all be screwed.

 

[DJJones]

D.Sedin- H.Sedin- Eriksson
Hudler- Sutter- Hansen
Baerstchi- Horvat- Rodin
Gaunce-Granlund-Etem
x-Dorsett, Virtanen (AHL)

Tanev-Edler
Hutton-Gudbrandson
Sbisa-Larsen
x-Tryamkin, Pedan

Markstrom
Miller

Funny thing is, I think that's a bubble team. I don't know why you would want to be a bubble team but there you are. Top 6 is good but old.

 

[UnicornONtheCOBB]

Edmonton Oilers


Lucic McDavid Eberle
Pouliot RNH Puljujarvi
Maroon Draisatl Yakupov
Hendricks Letestu Kassian

Klefbom Larsson
Sekera Davidson
Nurse Fayne

Talbot
Gustavsson

 

[vipernsx]

Based on the current roster it will be:

Kreider - Stepan - Miller
Nash - Zib - Zuc
Vesey - Hayes - Fast
Buch - Lindberg - Grabner

McD - Klein
Staal - Girardi
Skjei - McIlrath

Though there's a good chance Gorto isn't done.

 

[SpaceCoyote]

Domi - Hanzal - Duclair
McGinn - Strome - Vrbata
Reider - Dvorack - Doan
Martinook - Richardson - White

OEL - Murphy
Goligoski- Stone
Connauton- Schenn/Michalek

Smith
Domingue

Coyotes 2016/17

 

[BreakingGood]

Domi - Hanzal - Duclair
McGinn - Strome - Vrbata
Reider - Dvorack - Doan
Martinook - Richardson - White

OEL - Murphy
Goligoski- Stone
Connauton- Schenn/Michalek

Smith
Domingue

Coyotes 2016/17

I'm not a big fan of mike Smith, and I'm not sure any of those kids are elite scorers quite yet, but that looks like an actually pretty decent team.

 

[SLAPSHOT723]

Andrew Ladd - John Tavares - PA Parenteau
Anders Lee - Mathew Barzal/Ryan Strome - XXX/Ryan Strome/Josh Ho-Sang
Nikolay Kulemin - Brock Nelson - Josh Bailey
Jason Chimera - Casey Cizikas - Cal Clutterbuck
Shane Prince, Alan Quine
LTIR: Mikhail Grabovski

Nick Leddy - Travis Hamonic
Calvin deHaan - Johnny Boychuk
Thomas Hickey - Ryan Pulock
Scott Mayfield

Jaroslav Halak
Thomas Greiss
JF Berube

As of now there's definitely going to be competition in camp for a top-6 spot, probably coming from Barzal and Ho-Sang.

 

[Braeden]

Funny thing is, I think that's a bubble team. I don't know why you would want to be a bubble team but there you are. Top 6 is good but old.

You're a David Jones fan, you have no say in what a bubble team is.

 

[tburns21]

FOR THE BRUINS;
best guess as is today....

Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak
Belesky-Krejci-Backes
Vatrano-Spooner-Hayes
Rinaldo(?)-Acciari-Nash
ex:Randell

Chara-Mcquaid
Krug-K Milller
Liles-C Miller
ex: Morrow

Rask
Khudobin

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Chris Kreider --- Derek Stepan --- Rick Nash
Pavel Buchnevich --- Mika Zibanejad --- Mats Zuccarello (The BZZ line )
JT Miller --- Kevin Hayes --- Jimmy Vesey
Jesper Fast --- Josh Jooris --- Michael Grabner

Ryan McDonagh - Dan Girardi
Marc Staal - Brady Skjei
Kevin Klein - Dylan McIlrath

Henrik Lundqvist
Annti Raanta

 

[phosphene*]

Sabres

Ennis - O'Reilly - Okposo
Moulson - Eichel - Reinhart
Foligno - Larsson - Gionta
Deslauriers - Girgensons - Fasching

Kulikov - Ristolainen
McCabe - Bogosian
Gorges - Franson

Lehner
Nilsson

 

[DJJones]

You're a David Jones fan, you have no say in what a bubble team is.

That ******* ruined my name/initials for me haha. I cheered when he got traded.

 

[Nordic*]

I assume we aren't using players not signed (yet), right?

Garbutt-Getzlaf-Perry

Cogliano-Kesler-Siflverberg

Ritchie-Vermette-Raymond

Noesen-Wagner-Boll


Despres-Fowler

Vatanen-Manson

Theodore-Bieksa


Gibson
Bernier​

If unsigned players count, then add Rakell & Lindholm - probably take out Noesen & Theodore (sadly).

But realistically, Fowler will be dealt for a top-6 forward.