Line Combos: 2015-2016 Line Combos Thread
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Dr Jan Itor
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Parise - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Fontaine
Vanek - Coyle - Nino
Carter - Haula - Schroeder
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Dumba
Reilly - Spurgeon
Dubnyk
If Graovac or Haula take #3C spot, Coyle moves to the Zucker/Koivu RW and Fontaine goes to the 4th line.
Scandella/Spurgeon reunited periodically throughout the game and definitely in the 3rd when we have the lead.
Dubnyk plays 60 games.
Zucker - Koivu - Fontaine
Vanek - Coyle - Nino
Carter - Haula - Schroeder
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Dumba
Reilly - Spurgeon
Dubnyk
If Graovac or Haula take #3C spot, Coyle moves to the Zucker/Koivu RW and Fontaine goes to the 4th line.
Scandella/Spurgeon reunited periodically throughout the game and definitely in the 3rd when we have the lead.
Dubnyk plays 60 games.
Love it. Would really like to see nino with parise and granlund at some point though.
ThatGuy22
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This is a lot closer to what I would do, except swap Nino and Fontaine(Fontaine and Vanek had ridiculous scoring rates when paired, be interested to see if that can continue).
Granlund 64
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Ideally, for me, the forward lines would look like this:
Parise - Granlund - Coyle
Niederreiter - Koivu - Pominville
Zucker - Graovac - Vanek
Haula - Carter - Fontaine
Everyone is on their natural side, Coyle adds some size to the first line and is put back at wing, Carter is a better faceoff guy than Haula, and Fontaine seems to make any line work with limited minutes.
If it makes sense for Graovac to be up, I want him up when/if he earns it this year.
Parise - Granlund - Coyle
Niederreiter - Koivu - Pominville
Zucker - Graovac - Vanek
Haula - Carter - Fontaine
Everyone is on their natural side, Coyle adds some size to the first line and is put back at wing, Carter is a better faceoff guy than Haula, and Fontaine seems to make any line work with limited minutes.
If it makes sense for Graovac to be up, I want him up when/if he earns it this year.
^ Vanek prefers playing off wing...thus the left side.
Parise - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Nino
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Carter - Haula - Schroeder
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Dumba
Reilly - Spurgeon
Duuuuuuuuubs
Kuemper
Parise - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Nino
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Carter - Haula - Schroeder
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Dumba
Reilly - Spurgeon
Duuuuuuuuubs
Kuemper
Granlund 64
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I know he does, but honestly, at this point. I don't care what Vanek prefers. If the team wants to eventually shift Niederreiter to his natural side, I'd rather do it now and sacrifice Vanek a bit. If Nino is viewed as the potential #1 RW, then I withdraw the preceding statement.
I know he does, but honestly, at this point. I don't care what Vanek prefers. If the team wants to eventually shift Niederreiter to his natural side, I'd rather do it now and sacrifice Vanek a bit. If Nino is viewed as the potential #1 RW, then I withdraw the preceding statement.
I don't know, seems to me Nino plays equally well on both sides. I figure put players where they will perform best, and thus if Nino is just fine on the RW, then Vanek should play his preferred side.
nickschultzfan
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Parise-Couture-Okposo
Zucker-Granlund-Coyle
Nino - Koivu - Keranen
Carter - Haula- Fontaine
Suter-Brodin
Scandella-Spurgeon
Reilly-Folin
Dubs
Stalock
Vanek and Tuch for Okposo and 2nd
Dumba, Pominville, Kuemper, and 2nd for Couture and Stalock.
Zucker-Granlund-Coyle
Nino - Koivu - Keranen
Carter - Haula- Fontaine
Suter-Brodin
Scandella-Spurgeon
Reilly-Folin
Dubs
Stalock
Vanek and Tuch for Okposo and 2nd
Dumba, Pominville, Kuemper, and 2nd for Couture and Stalock.
I'd prefer to keep Tuch and Dumba.Parise-Couture-Okposo
Zucker-Granlund-Coyle
Nino - Koivu - Keranen
Carter - Haula- Fontaine
Suter-Brodin
Scandella-Spurgeon
Reilly-Folin
Dubs
Stalock
Vanek and Tuch for Okposo and 2nd
Dumba, Pominville, Kuemper, and 2nd for Couture and Stalock.
this providence
Chips in Bed Theorem
Parise - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Nino
Vanek - Graovac - Coyle
Schroeder - Haula - Fontaine
Carter
Suter - Dumba
Scandella - Spurgeon
Brodin - Folin
Prosser
Graovac is too good to be held off this roster. Especially at the center position. Granlund line stays together. Koivu gets a pair of youngsters to keep work off of him. 3rd line has some offense to counter bottom 6 lines. 4th line has tons of speed and enough offensive spark to surprise teams.
Defense is interesting. I think they want to get Folin significantly more NHL time and have a hard time believing they'll trust him on the left to keep the traditional top 4 together. The hypothetical defense above would need a lot of movement to play situations and match ups but I think it's feasible given the minutes the traditional top 4 has proven they can handle.
Zucker - Koivu - Nino
Vanek - Graovac - Coyle
Schroeder - Haula - Fontaine
Carter
Suter - Dumba
Scandella - Spurgeon
Brodin - Folin
Prosser
Graovac is too good to be held off this roster. Especially at the center position. Granlund line stays together. Koivu gets a pair of youngsters to keep work off of him. 3rd line has some offense to counter bottom 6 lines. 4th line has tons of speed and enough offensive spark to surprise teams.
Defense is interesting. I think they want to get Folin significantly more NHL time and have a hard time believing they'll trust him on the left to keep the traditional top 4 together. The hypothetical defense above would need a lot of movement to play situations and match ups but I think it's feasible given the minutes the traditional top 4 has proven they can handle.
I'd probably try;
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Haula with some combinations of Graovac/Carter/Schroeder/Dalpe/etc.(Carter 100% makes the roster, if no one else impresses Schroeder is the favorite for another spot)
Suter - Dumba
Scandella - Spurgeon
Reilly - Brodin
Prosser
Dubnyk
Kuemper
Backstrom
Rationale - I feel if we break up Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine its likely to have a negative impact on the players, unless its Coyle moving to wing. As of right now I'm not comfortable giving Graovac/Haula that #3C spot, so that's Coyle's spot. I do not like the idea of a Zucker-Koivu-Nino line, while some like the idea of giving Koivu 2 inexperienced wingers with Cy Young potential, I don't feel it plays to his strengths. I think putting Pominville makes this a much better line than Nino, and while its a downgrade on the 1st line I think it makes our top-6 better overall. If Haula/Graovac impress early I'd try PGP, Zucker-Koivu-Coyle, and Vanek-X-Nino. As of right now though Fontaine is far more worthy of a top-9 role. The versatility of Haula/Carter allow for the final 2 forward spots to go to the best players, regardless of position.
Defense, I think its safe to say nobody wants to see the disaster that would be a Reilly-Dumba pairing. We pretty much use Scandella-Spurgeon as a matchup pairing and they're 2 of our top-3 d-men IMO, keep them together. Split up Suter/Brodin early in games, bring them back to keep leads late. If Folin impresses more than Reilly you move Brodin to the left and play him with Folin. If Prosser's the 6th, Prosser-Dumba is the 3rd pairing and Brodin is with Suter.
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Haula with some combinations of Graovac/Carter/Schroeder/Dalpe/etc.(Carter 100% makes the roster, if no one else impresses Schroeder is the favorite for another spot)
Suter - Dumba
Scandella - Spurgeon
Reilly - Brodin
Prosser
Dubnyk
Kuemper
Backstrom
Rationale - I feel if we break up Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine its likely to have a negative impact on the players, unless its Coyle moving to wing. As of right now I'm not comfortable giving Graovac/Haula that #3C spot, so that's Coyle's spot. I do not like the idea of a Zucker-Koivu-Nino line, while some like the idea of giving Koivu 2 inexperienced wingers with Cy Young potential, I don't feel it plays to his strengths. I think putting Pominville makes this a much better line than Nino, and while its a downgrade on the 1st line I think it makes our top-6 better overall. If Haula/Graovac impress early I'd try PGP, Zucker-Koivu-Coyle, and Vanek-X-Nino. As of right now though Fontaine is far more worthy of a top-9 role. The versatility of Haula/Carter allow for the final 2 forward spots to go to the best players, regardless of position.
Defense, I think its safe to say nobody wants to see the disaster that would be a Reilly-Dumba pairing. We pretty much use Scandella-Spurgeon as a matchup pairing and they're 2 of our top-3 d-men IMO, keep them together. Split up Suter/Brodin early in games, bring them back to keep leads late. If Folin impresses more than Reilly you move Brodin to the left and play him with Folin. If Prosser's the 6th, Prosser-Dumba is the 3rd pairing and Brodin is with Suter.
If Prosser is 6th, we're back to searching for another D-man, as Prosser should not play regularly in an NHL lineup.
youvegotit
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What I'd like to see...
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Carter - Graovac - Haula
Schroeder
Suter - Spurgeon
Scandella - Folin
Brodin - Dumba
Reilly - Prosser
1st PP
Parise - Koivu - Vanek
Scandella - Dumba
2nd PP
Zucker - Granlund - Nino/Pominville
Suter - Spurgeon
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontaine
Carter - Graovac - Haula
Schroeder
Suter - Spurgeon
Scandella - Folin
Brodin - Dumba
Reilly - Prosser
1st PP
Parise - Koivu - Vanek
Scandella - Dumba
2nd PP
Zucker - Granlund - Nino/Pominville
Suter - Spurgeon
Couple things... Fletcher said Graovac doesn't make the team if it's only the 4th line.
Also, if Haula plays wing, Carter will shift to the RW in case of someone else playing center, as Carter has plenty of experience there... Haula has none.
PP #1
Parise-Granlund-Pominville
Suter-Spurgeon
PP #2
Vanek-Koivu-Nino
Reilly-Dumba
PK #1
Zucker-Haula
Suter-Brodin
PK #2
Carter-Coyle
Scandella-Spurgeon
Dubnyk gets ~60 starts
Kuemper gets ~20 starts
Win presidents trophy
Win Stanley Cup
Go all Jarret Stoll in Vegas next off-season
Nah, he's fine as a #6 in Yeo's system. Lets not act like this is Justin Falk we're talking about.
Reilly & Folin will def benefit more from playing top mins in the AHL for a full year or close to a full year than playing minimal mins in the NHL right now with how our defense is constructed, same thing with Graovoc, Gabriel, Keranen & Schroeder.
Stacking the AHL team this year as best as we can i think would be the best course of action, allowing call ups when the inevitable injuries come.
Resign Haula & Stewart at 1m caphit deals.
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontain
Carter - Haula - Stewart
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Spurgeron
Prosser - Dumba
AHL
*= those players are interchangeable
-Lucia might sign his pro deal this summer.
-Bertschy might be able to play center
Keranen - Graovoc - Schroeder
Lucia - Bertschy - Mitchell
Bussieres* - Downing - Knight
Bulmer* - Sutter* - Gabriel
Dalpe* / Fedetenko*
Reilly - Folin
Olofsson - Blum
Labbe - Palmquist
Gelinas
Stacking the AHL team this year as best as we can i think would be the best course of action, allowing call ups when the inevitable injuries come.
Resign Haula & Stewart at 1m caphit deals.
Parise - Granlund - Nino
Zucker - Koivu - Pominville
Vanek - Coyle - Fontain
Carter - Haula - Stewart
Suter - Brodin
Scandella - Spurgeron
Prosser - Dumba
AHL
*= those players are interchangeable
-Lucia might sign his pro deal this summer.
-Bertschy might be able to play center
Keranen - Graovoc - Schroeder
Lucia - Bertschy - Mitchell
Bussieres* - Downing - Knight
Bulmer* - Sutter* - Gabriel
Dalpe* / Fedetenko*
Reilly - Folin
Olofsson - Blum
Labbe - Palmquist
Gelinas
Disagree... I have been displeased whenever he has played regularly.
He's a decent #7 injury fill-in guy, but if everyone is healthy, he should not be on the ice. He's that type of guy. If you rely on him for #6 when everyone is healthy, then you are not a contender in the NHL IMO.
That's why we had to find Leo late last season and he immediately jumped ahead of Prosser.
I agree that the Wild should be looking at Prosser as the #7, and I agree that Leopold was better with Dumba than Prosser was. I can't agree with the bolded. Prosser is a legit bottom pairing dman. I bet it would be hard to name 10 teams that have 6 dmen that are better than him. He would've been the #5 for the Hawks all of last season, and I think it's fair to consider them contenders.
