Speculation: 2020-21 NHL Lines & Lineup Notes Thread (as of Apr. 10th '21 @ 10:30am ET)

For depth chart information, caley has a fantastic thread right here.

NOTES

1) This document is a reflection of the prior days games.

2) LW/RW & defensive sides are in effect. Injured/Unavailable and Scratched/Taxi players will be noted. 13th forwards or 7th defenseman will be noted as well.

2) Please remember this is an ever-evolving document - be constructive with any concerns or issues and I will address and update as the year goes on.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

(21 - 10 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Brad Marchand [A]	Patrice Bergeron [C]	Craig Smith
Nick Ritchie	David Krejčí [A]	David Pastrňák
Jake DeBrusk	Charlie Coyle	Karson Kuhlman
Anton Blidh	Sean Kuraly	Chris Wagner

Injured/Unavailable: Ondřej Kaše
Scratched/Taxi: Greg McKegg, Zach Senyshyn, Anders Bjork, Trent Frederic

LD	RD
Matt Grzelcyk	Kevan Miller
Jérémy Lauzon	Connor Clifton
Jakub Zbořil	Steven Kampfer

Injured/Unavailable: John Moore, Brandon Carlo, Charlie McAvoy
Scratched/Taxi: Jack Ahcan, Jarred Tinordi

G
Daniel Vladar
Jeremy Swayman

Injured/Unavailable: Tuukka Rask, Jaroslav Halák
Scratched/Taxi: Callum Booth

(9 - 25 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Jeff Skinner	Sam Reinhart [A]	Victor Olofsson
Rasmus Asplund	Casey Mittelstadt	Tage Thompson
Arttu Ruotsalainen	Riley Sheahan	Kyle Okposo [A]
Tobias Rieder	Cody Eakin	Matt Irwin (7th D)

Injured/Unavailable: Zemgus Girgensons, Jack Eichel [C], Dylan Cozens, Curtis Lazar, Drake Caggiula
Scratched/Taxi: C.J. Smith, Taylor Hall, Steven Fogarty

LD	RD
Jacob Bryson	Rasmus Ristolainen
Rasmus Dahlin	Henri Jokiharju
Brandon Montour	Colin Miller

Injured/Unavailable: Jake McCabe [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Brandon Davidson, William Borgen

G
Linus Ullmark
Dustin Tokarski

Injured/Unavailable: Carter Hutton
Scratched/Taxi: Michael Houser

(27 - 9 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Andrei Svechnikov	Sebastian Aho	Jesper Fast
Jordan Martinook [A]	Vincent Trocheck	Martin Nečas
Nino Niederreiter	Jordan Staal [C]	Warren Foegele
Cedric Paquette	Steven Lorentz	Morgan Geekie

Injured/Unavailable: Teuvo Teräväinen
Scratched/Taxi: Drew Shore, Max McCormick, Brock McGinn

LD	RD
Jaccob Slavin [A]	Dougie Hamilton
Brady Skjei	Brett Pesce
Jake Bean	Haydn Fleury

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Joey Keane, Jake Gardiner

G
Petr Mrázek
James Reimer

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Nedeljkovic

(15 - 19 - 8)

LW	C	RW
Oliver Bjorkstrand	Max Domi	Patrik Laine
Mikhail Grigorenko	Jack Roslovic	Cam Atkinson [A]
Eric Robinson	Alexandre Texier	Nick Foligno [C]
Liam Foudy	Zac Dalpe	Stefan Matteau

Injured/Unavailable: Gustav Nyquist, Emil Bemström, Boone Jenner [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Ryan MacInnis, Stefan Matteau, Kevin Stenlund, Kole Sherwood

LD	RD
Zach Werenski	Seth Jones [A]
Vladislav Gavrikov	Michael Del Zotto
Mikko Lehtonen	Dean Kukan

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Harrington, Gabriel Carlsson, David Savard

G
Joonas Korpisalo
Elvis Merzlikins

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Cam Johnson

(13 - 23 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Evgeny Svechnikov	Dylan Larkin [C]	Filip Zadina
Michael Rasmussen	Valtteri Filppula	Anthony Mantha
Adam Erne	Luke Glendening [A]	Darren Helm
Vladislav Namestnikov	Sam Gagner	Givani Smith

Injured/Unavailable: Tyler Bertuzzi, Bobby Ryan, Robby Fabbri
Scratched/Taxi: Taro Hirose, Mathias Bromé, Frans Nielsen [A]

LD	RD
Danny DeKeyser	Filip Hronek
Christian Djoos	Jon Merrill
Marc Staal	Troy Stecher

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Biega, Dennis Cholowski, Gustav Lindström

G
Thomas Greiss
Jonathan Bernier

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Kaden Fulcher, Calvin Pickard

(26 - 11 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Carter Verhaeghe	Aleksander Barkov [C]	Mason Marchment
Jonathan Huberdeau [A]	Alexander Wennberg	Patric Hörnqvist
Frank Vatrano	Noel Acciari	Ryan Lomberg
Juho Lammikko	Eetu Luostarinen	Brady Keeper (7th D)

Injured/Unavailable: Anthony Duclair, Lucas Wallmark, Owen Tippett
Scratched/Taxi: Ryan Lomberg, Aleksi Heponiemi

LD	RD
Gustav Forsling	MacKenzie Weegar
Matt Kiersted	Markus Nutivaara
Keith Yandle [A]	Radko Gudas

Injured/Unavailable: Noah Juulsen, Aaron Ekblad [A], Brandon Montour
Scratched/Taxi: Kevin Connauton, Anton Strålman, Lucas Carlsson

G
Sergei Bobrovsky
Chris Driedger

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Philippe Desrosiers, Spencer Knight

(17 - 11 - 9)

LW	C	RW
Corey Perry	Nick Suzuki	Josh Anderson
Tomáš Tatar	Phillip Danault	Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Jonathan Drouin	Eric Staal	Tyler Toffoli
Artturi Lehkonen	Jake Evans	Paul Byron [A]

Injured/Unavailable: Joel Armia, Brendan Gallagher [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Michael Frolik, Jake Evans

LD	RD
Joel Edmundson	Shea Weber [C]
Brett Kulak	Jeff Petry
Victor Mete	Alexander Romanov

Injured/Unavailable: Ben Chiarot
Scratched/Taxi: Otto Leskinen

G
Jake Allen
Cayden Primeau

Injured/Unavailable: Carey Price
Scratched/Taxi: Michael McNiven

(14 - 19 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Janne Kuokkanen	Jack Hughes	Yegor Sharangovich
Miles Wood [A]	Pavel Zacha	Jesper Bratt
Andreas Johnsson	Jesper Boqvist	Nick Merkley
Mikhail Maltsev	Michael McLeod	Tyce Thompson

Injured/Unavailable: Nico Hischier [C], Nathan Bastian
Scratched/Taxi: Ben Street

LD	RD
Ryan Murray	Damon Severson [A]
Dmitry Kulikov	P.K. Subban [A]
Ty Smith	Sami Vatanen

Injured/Unavailable: Will Butcher
Scratched/Taxi: Nikita Okhotyuk, Josh Jacobs

G
Mackenzie Blackwood
Aaron Dell

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Wedgewood, Evan Cormier

(26 - 11 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Leo Komarov	Mathew Barzal	Jordan Eberle
Anthony Beauvillier	Brock Nelson	Josh Bailey [A]
Travis Zajac	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	Kyle Palmieri
Matt Martin	Casey Cizikas	Cal Clutterbuck [A]

Injured/Unavailable: Anders Lee [C], Michael Dal Colle
Scratched/Taxi: Andrew Ladd, Austin Czarnik, Ross Johnston, Kieffer Bellows, Oliver Wahlstrom

LD	RD
Adam Pelech	Ryan Pulock
Nick Leddy	Scott Mayfield
Andy Greene	Noah Dobson

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Sebastian Aho, Thomas Hickey

G
Semyon Varlamov
Ilya Sorokin

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Cory Schneider

(19 - 16 - 5)

LW	C	RW
Chris Kreider [A]	Mika Zibanejad [A]	Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin [A]	Ryan Strome	Colin Blackwell
Alexis Lafrenière	Filip Chytil	Kaapo Kakko
Brett Howden	Kevin Rooney	Vitali Kravtsov

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Julien Gauthier, Phillip Di Giuseppe

LD	RD
Ryan Lindgren	Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller	Jacob Trouba [A]
Libor Hájek	Brendan Smith

Injured/Unavailable: Jack Johnson
Scratched/Taxi: Anthony Bitetto

G
Igor Shesterkin
Alexandar Georgiev

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Keith Kinkaid

(13 - 24 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Brady Tkachuk [A]	Josh Norris	Nick Paul
Tim Stützle	Michael Amadio	Drake Batherson
Alex Formenton	Artem Anisimov	Evgenii Dadonov
Clark Bishop	Chris Tierney	Connor Brown

Injured/Unavailable: Derek Stepan [A], Austin Watson, Michael Amadio, Colin White, Ryan Dzingel
Scratched/Taxi: Logan Shaw, Jack Kopacka

LD	RD
Thomas Chabot [A]	Nikita Zaitsev
Mike Reilly	Artem Zub
Erik Brännström	Erik Gudbranson [A]

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Olle Alsing, Josh Brown, Braydon Coburn

G
Matt Murray
Anton Forsberg

Injured/Unavailable: Joey Daccord
Scratched/Taxi: Marcus Högberg

(18 - 15 - 6)

LW	C	RW
James van Riemsdyk	Sean Couturier [A]	Oskar Lindblom
Jakub Voráček [A]	Claude Giroux [C]	Travis Konecny
Scott Laughton	Kevin Hayes [A]	Joel Farabee
Michael Raffl	Nolan Patrick	Nicolas Aubé-Kubel

Injured/Unavailable: Morgan Frost
Scratched/Taxi: Carsen Twayrnski

LD	RD
Ivan Provorov [A]	Justin Braun
Travis Sanheim	Robert Hägg
Samuel Morin	Shayne Gostisbehere

Injured/Unavailable: Philippe Myers
Scratched/Taxi: Derrick Pouliot, Nate Prosser, Erik Gustafsson

G
Carter Hart
Brian Elliott

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Lyon

(26 - 13 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Jake Guentzel	Sidney Crosby [C]	Bryan Rust
Jason Zucker	Jared McCann	Evan Rodrigues
Zach Aston-Reese	Frédérick Gaudreau	Sam Lafferty
Radim Zohorna	Mark Jankowski	Colton Sceviour

Injured/Unavailable: Evgeni Malkin [A], Teddy Blueger, Kasperi Kapanen, Brandon Tanev
Scratched/Taxi: Josh Currie, Drew O'Connor, Anthony Angello

LD	RD
Brian Dumoulin	Kris Letang [A]
Marcus Pettersson	John Marino
Michael Matheson	Cody Ceci

Injured/Unavailable: Juuso Riikola, Mark Friedman
Scratched/Taxi: Yannick Weber, Chad Ruhwedel

G
Tristan Jarry
Casey DeSmith

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Emil Larmi

(27 - 11 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Ondřej Palát	Brayden Point	Steven Stamkos [C]
Alex Killorn [A]	Anthony Cirelli	Mathieu Joseph
Blake Coleman	Yanni Gourde	Barclay Goodrow
Patrick Maroon	Ross Colton	Tyler Johnson

Injured/Unavailable: Nikita Kucherov, Mitchell Stephens
Scratched/Taxi: Gemel Smith

LD	RD
Victor Hedman [A]	Erik Černák
Ryan McDonagh [A]	Ben Thomas
Mikhail Sergachev	Cal Foote

Injured/Unavailable: Jan Rutta
Scratched/Taxi: Daniel Walcott, Andreas Borgman, Luke Schenn

G
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Christopher Gibson

(27 - 10 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Zach Hyman	Auston Matthews [A]	Mitch Marner [A]
Alex Galchenyuk	John Tavares [C]	Ilya Mikheyev
Alexander Barabanov	Pierre Engvall	Wayne Simmonds
Joe Thornton	Alexander Kerfoot	Jason Spezza

Injured/Unavailable: Riley Nash, William Nylander
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Sabourin, Adam Brooks

LD	RD
Morgan Rielly [A]	T.J. Brodie
Jake Muzzin	Justin Holl
Travis Dermott	Zach Bogosian

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Joseph Duszak

G
Jack Campbell
Michael Hutchinson

Injured/Unavailable: Frederik Andersen
Scratched/Taxi: Veini Vehvilainen

(26 - 11 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Alex Ovechkin [C]	Evgeny Kuznetsov	Tom Wilson
Conor Sheary	Nicklas Bäckström [A]	Daniel Sprong
Jakub Vrána	Lars Eller	T.J. Oshie
Carl Hagelin	Nic Dowd	Garnet Hathaway

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Michael Sgarbossa, Garrett Pilon, Richard Pánik, Daniel Carr

LD	RD
Dmitry Orlov	John Carlson [A]
Brenden Dillon	Justin Schultz
Zdeno Chára	Nick Jensen

Injured/Unavailable: Michal Kempný
Scratched/Taxi: Jonas Siegenthaler, Trevor van Riemsdyk

G
Ilya Samsonov
Vítek Vaněček

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Craig Anderson

WESTERN CONFERENCE

(12 - 22 - 7)

LW	C	RW
Danton Heinen	Adam Henrique	Jakob Silfverberg [A]
Max Comtois	Chase De Leo	Rickard Rakell
Max Jones	Sam Carrick	Troy Terry
Nicolas Deslauriers	David Backes	Alexander Volkov

Injured/Unavailable: Carter Rowney, Sonny Milano, Sam Steel, Ryan Getzlaf [C], Isac Lundeström, Derek Grant
Scratched/Taxi: Andrew Agozzino

LD	RD
Cam Fowler [A]	Jani Hakanpää
Jamie Drysdale	Josh Manson [A]
Ben Hutton	Kevin Shattenkirk

Injured/Unavailable: Hampus Lindholm
Scratched/Taxi: Kodie Curran, Andy Welinski, Jacob Larsson

G
John Gibson
Ryan Miller

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Anthony Stolarz

(19 - 17 - 5)

LW	C	RW
Clayton Keller	Christian Dvorak	Christian Fischer
Michael Bunting	Nick Schmaltz	Conor Garland
Dryden Hunt	Johan Larsson	Phil Kessel [A]
Lawson Crouse	Derick Brassard [A]	Tyler Pitlick

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Michael Chaput, John Hayden, Lane Pederson

LD	RD
Oliver Ekman-Larsson [C]	Ilya Lyubushkin
Jakob Chychrun	Alex Goligoski
Jordan Oesterle	Jason Demers

Injured/Unavailable: Niklas Hjalmarsson [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Aaron Ness, Jordan Gross

G
Adin Hill
Ivan Prosvetov

Injured/Unavailable: Darcy Kuemper, Antti Raanta
Scratched/Taxi: David Tendeck

(16 - 21 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Johnny Gaudreau	Sean Monahan [A]	Brett Ritchie
Matthew Tkachuk [A]	Elias Lindholm	Dillon Dubé
Milan Lucic	Mikael Backlund	Andrew Mangiapane
Joakim Nordström	Derek Ryan	Sam Bennett

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Buddy Robinson, Dominik Simon, Zac Rinaldo, Josh Leivo

LD	RD
Mark Giordano [C]	Rasmus Andersson
Noah Hanifin	Christopher Tanev
Nikita Nesterov	Michael Stone

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Petrovic, Oliver Kylington, Juuso Välimäki

G
Jacob Markström
David Rittich

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Louis Domingue

(18 - 18 - 5)

LW	C	RW
Alex DeBrincat	Kirby Dach	Patrick Kane [A]
Mattias Janmark	Pius Suter	Dylan Strome
Dominik Kubalík	Philipp Kurashev	Vinnie Hinostroza
Brandon Hagel	David Kampf	Ryan Carpenter

Injured/Unavailable: Zack Smith, Jonathan Toews [C], Alexander Nylander, Andrew Shaw, Brett Connolly
Scratched/Taxi: Mike Hardman, Carl Söderberg, Matthew Highmore, Brandon Pirri

LD	RD
Duncan Keith [A]	Adam Boqvist
Nikita Zadorov	Connor Murphy [A]
Calvin de Haan	Wyatt Kalynuk

Injured/Unavailable: Riley Stillman
Scratched/Taxi: Madison Bowey

G
Kevin Lankinen
Malcolm Subban

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Collin Delia

(27 - 9 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Gabriel Landeskog [C]	Nathan MacKinnon [A]	Mikko Rantanen [A]
Brandon Saad	Nazem Kadri	André Burakovsky
Valeri Nichushkin	Tyson Jost	Joonas Donskoi
Liam O'Brien	Pierre-Édouard Bellemare	J.T. Compher

Injured/Unavailable: Matt Calvert, Logan O'Connor
Scratched/Taxi: Jayson Megna, Peyton Jones

LD	RD
Ryan Graves	Cale Makar
Devon Toews	Samuel Girard
Keaton Middleton	Kyle Burroughs

Injured/Unavailable: Erik Johnson [A], Bowen Byram
Scratched/Taxi: Greg Pateryn, Daniel Renouf, Jacob MacDonald, Patrik Nemeth

G
Phillip Grubauer
Jonas Johansson

Injured/Unavailable: Pavel Francouz, Devan Dubnyk
Scratched/Taxi:

(14 - 14 - 10)

LW	C	RW
Jason Robertson	Roope Hintz	Joe Pavelski
Jamie Benn [C]	Ty Dellandrea	Denis Gurianov
Andrew Cogliano	Radek Faksa	Blake Comeau [A]
Tanner Kero	Rhett Gardner	Joel L'Esperance

Injured/Unavailable: Tyler Seguin [A], Alexander Radulov [A], Joel Kiviranta, Jason Dickinson
Scratched/Taxi: Justin Dowling, Nicholas Caamano

LD	RD
Esa Lindell [A]	John Klingberg [A]
Jamie Oleksiak	Miro Heiskanen
Andrej Sekera	Mark Pysyk

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Taylor Fedun, Joel Hanley

G
Jake Oettinger
Landon Bow

Injured/Unavailable: Ben Bishop, Anton Khudobin
Scratched/Taxi:

(25 - 14 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Leon Draisaitl [A]	Connor McDavid [C]	Jesse Puljujarvi
Dominik Kahun	Gaëtan Haas	Kailer Yamamoto
Alex Chiasson	Kyle Turris	Zack Kassian
Devin Shore	Jujhar Khaira	Josh Archibald

Injured/Unavailable: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Patrick Russell, James Neal, Joakim Nygård, Tyler Ennis

LD	RD
Darnell Nurse [A]	Tyson Barrie
Kris Russell	Adam Larsson [A]
Caleb Jones	Ethan Bear

Injured/Unavailable: Oscar Klefbom, Slater Koekkeok
Scratched/Taxi: Evan Bouchard, William Lagesson

G
Mike Smith
Mikko Koskinen

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Stalock

(15 - 18 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Alex Iafallo	Anže Kopitar [C]	Dustin Brown
Andreas Athanasiou	Blake Lizotte	Jeff Carter [A]
Brendan Lemieux	Adrian Kempe	Austin Wagner
Carl Grundström	Jaret Anderson-Dolan	Trevor Moore

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Drake Rymsha, Gabe Vilardi, Lias Andersson, Matt Luff

LD	RD
Mikey Anderson	Drew Doughty [A]
Christian Wolanin	Sean Walker
Kurtis MacDermid	Kale Clague

Injured/Unavailable: Olli Määttä, Matt Roy
Scratched/Taxi: Tobias Björnfot, Austin Strand

G
Jonathan Quick
Cal Peterson

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Troy Grosenick

(24 - 13 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Kirill Kaprizov	Joel Eriksson Ek	Jordan Greenway
Kevin Fiala	Nick Bonino	Ryan Hartman
Marcus Johansson	Victor Rask	Mats Zuccarello
Zach Parise [A]	Luke Johnson	Kyle Rau

Injured/Unavailable: Marco Rossi, Marcus Foligno, Nick Bjugstad
Scratched/Taxi: Joseph Cramarossa, Nico Sturm

LD	RD
Ryan Suter [A]	Jared Spurgeon [C]
Jonas Brodin	Matt Dumba
Carson Soucy	Ian Cole

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Dakota Mermis, Brad Hunt

G
Cam Talbot
Kaapo Kähkönen

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Andrew Hammond

(22 - 18 - 1)

LW	C	RW
Rocco Grimaldi	Ryan Johansen [A]	Viktor Arvidsson
Calle Järnkrok	Mikael Granlund	Luke Kunin
Nick Cousins	Erik Haula	Ben Harpur (7th D)
Mathieu Olivier	Colton Sissons	Yakov Trenin

Injured/Unavailable: Matt Duchene, Brad Richardson, Filip Forsberg [A], Eeli Tolvanen
Scratched/Taxi: Anthony Richard, Michael McCarron, Rem Pitlick, Thomas Novak

LD	RD
Roman Josi [C]	Jeremy Davies
Mattias Ekholm [A]	David Farrance
Tyler Lewington	Matt Benning

Injured/Unavailable: Luca Sbisa, Ryan Ellis [A], Mark Borowiecki, Alexandre Carrier, Dante Fabbro
Scratched/Taxi:

G
Juuse Saros
Pekka Rinne

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Kasimir Kaskisuo

(18 - 17 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Evander Kane	Logan Couture [C]	Kevin Labanc
Rūdolfs Balcers	Tomáš Hertl [A]	Timo Meier
Ryan Donato	Dylan Gambrell	John Leonard
Jeffrey Viel	Patrick Marleau [A]	Marcus Sörensen

Injured/Unavailable: Matt Nieto
Scratched/Taxi: Kurtis Gabriel, Antti Suomela, Noah Gregor

LD	RD
Mario Ferraro	Brent Burns [A]
Nikolai Knyzhov	Erik Karlsson [A]
Radim Šimek	Christián Jaroš

Injured/Unavailable: Marc-Édouard Vlasic, Greg Pateryn
Scratched/Taxi: Fredrik Claesson

G
Martin Jones
Devan Dubnyk

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Josef Korenar

(18 - 16 - 6)

LW	C	RW
Sammy Blais	Ryan O'Reilly [C]	David Perron
Jaden Schwartz	Brayden Schenn [A]	Vladimir Tarasenko [A]
Zach Sanford	Robert Thomas	Tyler Bozak
Kyle Clifford	Ivan Barbashev	Jordan Kyrou

Injured/Unavailable: Mackenzie MacEachern, Oskar Sundqvist, Mike Hoffman
Scratched/Taxi: Austin Poganski, Nathan Walker, Dakota Joshua, Jacob de la Rose

LD	RD
Jake Walman	Colton Parayko [A]
Torey Krug	Justin Faulk
Vince Dunn	Marco Scandella

Injured/Unavailable: Carl Gunnarsson, Robert Bortuzzo
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Perunovich, Steven Santini, Niko Mikkola

G
Jordan Binnington
Ville Husso

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Jon Gillies

(16 - 18 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Nils Höglander	Bo Horvat [C]	Brock Boeser
Jimmy Vesey	J.T. Miller	Jake Virtanen
Tyler Motte	Adam Gaudette	Jayce Hawryluk
Antoine Roussel	Tyler Graovac	Zack MacEwen

Injured/Unavailable: Justin Bailey, Elias Pettersson, Tanner Pearson, Jay Beagle, Brandon Sutter [A], Travis Boyd
Scratched/Taxi: Marc Michaelis, Loui Eriksson, Kole Lind

LD	RD
Alexander Edler [A]	Nate Schmidt
Quinn Hughes	Travis Hamonic
Jordie Benn	Tyler Myers

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Brogan Raffertty, Ashton Sautner, Olli Juolevi, Jalen Chatfield

G
Thatcher Demko
Braden Holtby

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Michael DiPietro

(25 - 11 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Max Pacioretty	Chandler Stephenson	Mark Stone [C]
Jonathan Marchessault	William Karlsson	Reilly Smith [A]
Keegan Kolesar	Tomáš Nosek	Alex Tuch
William Carrier	Nicolas Roy	Ryan Reaves

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Patrick Brown, Cody Glass

LD	RD
Brayden McNabb	Alex Pietrangelo [A]
Alec Martinez	Shea Theodore
Nicolas Hague	Nick Holden

Injured/Unavailable: Zach Whitecloud
Scratched/Taxi: Jake Bischoff, Carl Dahlstrom, Dylan Coghlan

G
Robin Lehner
Marc-André Fleury

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Oscar Dansk

(24 - 13 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Kyle Connor	Mark Scheifele [A]	Nikolaj Ehlers
Paul Stastny	Pierre-Luc Dubois	Andrew Copp
Mathieu Perreault	Adam Lowry	Mason Appleton
Jansen Harkins	Nate Thompson	Trevor Lewis

Injured/Unavailable: Blake Wheeler [C]
Scratched/Taxi: Joona Luoto, Kristian Vesalainen, Dominic Toninato

LD	RD
Josh Morrissey [A]	Tucker Poolman
Derek Forbort	Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley	Dylan DeMelo

Injured/Unavailable: Nathan Beaulieu
Scratched/Taxi: Nelson Nogier, Ville Heinola, Sami Niku

G
Connor Hellebuyck
Laurent Brossoit

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Eric Comrie

 

If there are any injured players to start the year I missed, let me know!

 

Changes to Avs

Defense:
Switch Toews with Graves. Avs didn’t trade for and pay Toews more than Graves to play him 3rd pair.

LHD - RHD
Toews - Makar
Girard - E Johnson
Graves - Timmins (3rd pair).
Scratch Cole (LHD)

Forwards:
Switch Burakovsky with Landy.
Switch Nuke with Jost.

LW- C- RW
Burakovsky - Mack- Rants
Saad- Kadri -Landy
Calvert- PEB- Nuke (checking line)
Kaut- JT Compher -Donskoi

Scratch Jost (L) and OConner (R shot). Kamenev is in KHL. His Avs career is over.

 

Looks good so far.

 

Well done.

 

For the Penguins, it would depend on the date the season starts obviously, but the way things are looking now, Zach Aston-Reese will likely begin the season on IR. The top 6 is fine, Rutherford has eluded to McCann-Jankowski-Rodrigues being the 3rd line to start the year, so that means Sceviour will likely slot in at 4RW moving Tanev to 4LW. Also, swap Matheson and Pettersson.

 

It felt wrong putting Matheson and Ceci as a pairing so I swapped the LD - will adjust though

 

Until Dunn gets signed or traded, the current Blues opening night roster would look more like this.

Sanford-O’Reilly-Perron
Schwartz-Thomas-Schenn
Blais-Bozak-Kyrou
Clifford-Barbashev-Sundqvist
MacEachern, de la Rose

Krug-Parayko
Scandella-Faulk
Mikkola-Bortuzzo
Gunnarsson

Binnington
Husso


Armstrong and Chief said that Thomas would get top 6 time, and Army also mentioned that he hopes Kostin can push his way onto the team.

 

Canucks I would put Ferland down as injured move Sutter up to the 3rd put Eriksson on the 4th and MacEwen in the scratched other than that it looks good.

 

I'd definitely assume for the Flames that Lucic is on the 4th line and Leivo on 3rd. Probably Simon in instead of Nordstrom. But mostly current

 

Sens fans don’t expect Stutzle to make the team?

 

I believe he’s injured to start the year.

 

His current team is also trying to keep him in Germany for the entire season.

 

Leafs changes are pretty nitpicky so not worth updating, but I think both Barabanov and Lethonen are playing in the opening night line-up.

 

1- With Berube in charge; there is zero chance that Gunnar sits in favor of Mikkola.
Until Dunn signs, the 3rd pairing is Gunnarson-Bortuzzo. It’s wishful thinking to suggest otherwise.

2- There’s a lot of things up in the air offensively, especially in the bottom 6. It’s too early to speculate on the forward lines.

 

I agree. Same with pius suter in chicago and zub in ottawa.

 

Just a little change for the Sens : you should switch Wolanin and Reilly.

Wolanin has been pretty solid in the NHL in his short stints and excellent in the AHL. He’s our most underrated player by other fanbases imo.

 

If Mikko Lehtonen (Jokerit) doesn't make the Toronto Maple Leafs squad - then it's a real (NHL) joke.

Mikko Lehtonen is easy, and I real mean EASY the best European defender around.

 

That's fantastic that however doesn't mean he can translate to the NHL.

 

I can see a path for Lethonen but I don't see whose job Barabanov takes

 

With the the scuttlebutt is that Lindholm might have the opportunity to center the first line. If that happens I have no idea where Monahan will play. Not for the Flames?

 

Look for Nurse to break out even more this season with Klefbom out. Just a hunch...

Good thread OP

 

Took off all (I think) the players who are currently at the World Juniors since they won't be back for opening night.

 

For Ottawa, Nilsson is injured to to the year (concussion). Backup will be Hogberg.

 

RE NYR, Kravstov will remain in KHL thru the completion of Traktor's season,
so, to start, 14th F (and eventual taxi F's) likely from among Colin Blackwell, Jonny Brodzinski, Tim Gettinger, Morgan Barron (rookie), or Justin Richards(rookie).