LetsGoBLUES91
Registered User
- Jan 8, 2013
- 9,165
- 3,099
- Maroon- ROR - Tarasenko
- Schwartz - Schenn - Kyrou
- Steen - Bozak - Perron
- Fabbri - Thomas - Blais
The one game with the full lineup we went with:What was our powerplay units at pre-season games?
The one game with the full lineup we went with:
Schwartz Schenn Perron Steen Pietrangelo
Tarasenko OReilly Maroon Bozak Dunn
They alternated. Yep good call.I thought Parayko was on instead of Dunn? I'm sorry but get Steen off the PP at this point. His shot is ineffective anymore. Both those don't inspire much confidence to me but we'll see how it goes.
I thought Parayko was on instead of Dunn? I'm sorry but get Steen off the PP at this point. His shot is ineffective anymore. Both those don't inspire much confidence to me but we'll see how it goes.
By "both those" are you saying that you'd prefer Parayko to Dunn on a powerplay unit?
No, I'm saying the way the power play units are constructed doesn't inspire confidence. I don't understand why you have Maroon as net front for only Tarasenko. Bozak and O'Reilly aren't really shooters and neither is Petro. You need to put Parayko and Dunn with O'Reilly, Tarasenko, and Maroon. Move Petro and Bozak to PP2 with Schenn, Schwartz, and Perron. You have two distributors with three shooters then, makes more sense, at least to me.
No, I'm saying the way the power play units are constructed doesn't inspire confidence. I don't understand why you have Maroon as net front for only Tarasenko. Bozak and O'Reilly aren't really shooters and neither is Petro. You need to put Parayko and Dunn with O'Reilly, Tarasenko, and Maroon. Move Petro and Bozak to PP2 with Schenn, Schwartz, and Perron. You have two distributors with three shooters then, makes more sense, at least to me.
Today’s lines at practice
Maroon-O'Reilly-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Schenn-Kyrou
Steen-Bozak-Perron
Barbashev-Thomas-Blais
Bouwmeester-Pietrangelo
Dunn-Parayko
Butler-Schmaltz
Mikkola-Bortuzzo
Gunnarsson
Allen
Johnson
Why Butler? Why not Mikkola and give him a shot?
I know some won't agree, but I hope Schmaltz plays well, and we end up with a top 4 of Dunn, Eddy, Petro, Parayko, and a 3rd pairing of Jbo and Schmaltz at some point.
I like Bortz physicality, but he doesn't bring much more than that to the table. Solid 7th dman while Mikkola and Walmann develop.
One thing i will say tho.....is we have so much scoring ability throughout our lineup, the toughest thing for me is finding who our PK forwards will be....I'd say top PK unit should be Steen and sundqvist(i know u guys hate him, but he's fantastic defensively and will be willing to block shots etc..) and then ROR(don't want him as our top pk guy until playoffs and maybe barbashev?
The reason i don't like having nolan/thorburn(obvi)/ jaskin on the 4th line for us is solely because i don't trust any of them as PK guys (soshnikov i have no idea if he can kill or not, i like his speed and tenacity tho) and i sure as heck don't want our horses being used on the PK throughout the whole year. I'm a firm believer in having 4th liners that atleast kill penalties, because solely playing 8 mins a night and not killing penalties, seems like a wasted roster spot IMO...other than the rare occasion you dress a thorburn type when u know a tough regular season game is coming up whether a rivalry game or a 2nd game after something crazy happened the first game etc...etc.... u get my point..
So unless bozak is our 4C(due to thomas and Kyrou) I really want to see Sundqvist get an opportunity to run with it and see if he can continue to develop and make some plays(I really think he's vastly underrated on these boards) while continuing to be the smart responsible defensive player he is. Not for nothing, i know a lot of it was due to our top line and our D scoring....but we were the best team in the league last year while sundqvist was our 3C....and he was playing with paajarvi and jaskin LOL...can't really expect him to produce offensively in that situation ya know.
Nooooo...
Nooooo...