Speculation: 2020-21 NHL Lines & Lineup Notes Thread (as of Mar. 3rd '21 @ 9:30am 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

(12 - 5 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Brad Marchand [A]	Patrice Bergeron [C]	David Pastrňák
Nick Ritchie	Charlie Coyle	Craig Smith
Jake DeBrusk	Jack Studnicka	Trent Frederic
Greg McKegg	Sean Kuraly	Karson Kuhlman

Injured/Unavailable: Ondřej Kaše, David Krejčí [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Anders Bjork, Chris Wagner

LD	RD
Jakub Zbořil	Charlie McAvoy
Connor Clifton	Brandon Carlo
Urho Vaakanainen	Steven Kampfer

Injured/Unavailable: Matt Grzelcyk, Jérémy Lauzon
Scratched/Taxi: Jarred Tinordi, John Moore, Kevan Miller

G
Tuukka Rask
Jaroslav Halák

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Callum Booth

(6 - 11 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Victor Olofsson	Jack Eichel [C]	Sam Reinhart
Taylor Hall	Eric Staal	Kyle Okposo [A]
Dylan Cozens	Cody Eakin	Tobias Rieder
Jeff Skinner	Curtis Lazar	Riley Sheahan

Injured/Unavailable: Zemgus Girgensons
Scratched/Taxi: C.J. Smith, Rasmus Asplund, Tage Thompson, Casey Mittelstadt

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

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

G
Carter Hutton
Jonas Johansson

Injured/Unavailable: Linus Ullmark
Scratched/Taxi: Dustin Tokarski

(15 - 6 - 1)

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

Injured/Unavailable: Teuvo Teräväinen
Scratched/Taxi: Max McCormick, David Gust, Morgan Geekie

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Joakim Ryan, Jake Gardiner

G
James Reimer
Alex Nedeljkovic

Injured/Unavailable: Petr Mrázek
Scratched/Taxi:

(10 - 10 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Patrik Laine	Jack Roslovic	Cam Atkinson [A]
Eric Robinson	Boone Jenner [A]	Nick Foligno [C]
Emil Bemström	Riley Nash	Oliver Bjorkstrand
Alexandre Texier	Max Domi	Kevin Stenlund

Injured/Unavailable: Gustav Nyquist
Scratched/Taxi: Ryan MacInnis, Zac Dalpe, Stefan Matteau, Mikhail Grigorenko

LD	RD
Zach Werenski	Seth Jones [A]
Gabriel Carlsson	David Savard
Vladislav Gavrikov	Michael Del Zotto

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Harrington, Dean Kukan

G
Joonas Korpisalo
Veini Vehvilainen

Injured/Unavailable: Elvis Merzlikins
Scratched/Taxi: Cam Johnson

(7 - 15 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Mathias Bromé	Michael Rasmussen	Anthony Mantha
Sam Gagner	Vladislav Namestnikov	Filip Zadina
Evgeny Svechnikov	Robby Fabbri	Bobby Ryan
Adam Erne	Luke Glendening [A]	Darren Helm

Injured/Unavailable: Tyler Bertuzzi, Dylan Larkin [C]
Scratched/Taxi: Valtteri Filppula, Frans Nielsen [A]

LD	RD
Danny DeKeyser	Filip Hronek
Patrik Nemeth	Christian Djoos
Marc Staal	Jon Merrill

Injured/Unavailable: Troy Stecher
Scratched/Taxi: Gustav Lindström, Alex Biega

G
Thomas Greiss
Jonathan Bernier

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Calvin Pickard

(13 - 4 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Frank Vatrano	Aleksander Barkov [C]	Carter Verhaeghe
Jonathan Huberdeau [A]	Alexander Wennberg	Patric Hörnqvist
Mason Marchment	Eetu Luostarinen	Owen Tippett
Ryan Lomberg	Noel Acciari	Juho Lammikko

Injured/Unavailable: Anthony Duclair
Scratched/Taxi: Grigori Denisenko, Vinnie Hinostroza, Brett Connolly

LD	RD
MacKenzie Weegar	Aaron Ekblad [A]
Keith Yandle [A]	Anton Strålman
Kevin Connauton	Radko Gudas

Injured/Unavailable: Noah Juulsen, Markus Nutivaara
Scratched/Taxi: Riley Stillman, Gustav Forsling

G
Sergei Bobrovsky
Chris Driedger

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Philippe Desrosiers

(10 - 6 - 5)

LW	C	RW
Jonathan Drouin	Nick Suzuki	Tyler Toffoli
Tomáš Tatar	Phillip Danault	Brendan Gallagher [A]
Artturi Lehkonen	Jesperi Kotkaniemi	Joel Armia
Paul Byron [A]	Jake Evans	Corey Perry

Injured/Unavailable: Josh Anderson
Scratched/Taxi: Hayden Verbeek, Cameron Hillis, Michael Frolik

LD	RD
Ben Chiarot	Shea Weber [C]
Joel Edmundson	Jeff Petry
Brett Kulak	Alexander Romanov

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Victor Mete

G
Carey Price
Jake Allen

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Charlie Lindgren

(7 - 9 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Andreas Johnsson	Jack Hughes	Kyle Palmieri [A]
Jesper Bratt	Pavel Zacha	Nikita Gusev
Miles Wood	Travis Zajac [A]	Yegor Sharangovich
Mikhail Maltsev	Michael McLeod	Nathan Bastian

Injured/Unavailable: Nico Hischier [C]
Scratched/Taxi: Janne Kuokkanen

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

Injured/Unavailable: Ryan Murray
Scratched/Taxi: Josh Jacobs, Connor Carrick, Matt Tennyson

G
Mackenzie Blackwood
Aaron Dell

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Wedgewood

(12 - 6 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Anders Lee [C]	Mathew Barzal	Josh Bailey [A]
Anthony Beauvillier	Brock Nelson	Jordan Eberle
Michael Dal Colle	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	Oliver Wahlstrom
Matt Martin	Casey Cizikas	Cal Clutterbuck [A]

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Ross Johnston, Andrew Ladd, Kieffer Bellows, Austin Czarnik, Leo Komarov

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

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

G
Semyon Varlamov
Ilya Sorokin

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Cory Schneider, Jakub Skarek

(8 - 9 - 3)

LW	C	RW
Alexis Lafrenière	Mika Zibanejad [A]	Pavel Buchnevich
Chris Kreider [A]	Ryan Strome	Colin Blackwell
Kevin Rooney	Filip Chytil	Julien Gauthier
Brendan Lemieux	Brett Howden	Phillip Di Giuseppe

Injured/Unavailable: Artemi Panarin [A], Kaapo Kakko
Scratched/Taxi: Jonny Brodzinski, Ty Ronning

LD	RD
Ryan Lindgren	Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller	Brendan Smith
Jack Johnson	Libor Hájek

Injured/Unavailable: Anthony Bitetto, Jacob Trouba [A]
Scratched/Taxi:

G
Igor Shesterkin
Alexandar Georgiev

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Keith Kinkaid

(8 - 16 - 1)

LW	C	RW
Brady Tkachuk [A]	Joshua Norris	Connor Brown
Nick Paul	Colin White	Evgenii Dadonov
Tim Stützle	Chris Tierney	Drake Batherson
Michael Haley	Artem Anisimov	Austin Watson

Injured/Unavailable: Ryan Dzingel, Derek Stepan [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Matthew Peca, Clark Bishop

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Josh Brown, Christian Wolanin, Braydon Coburn

G
Joey Daccord
Filip Gustavsson

Injured/Unavailable: Marcus Högberg, Matt Murray
Scratched/Taxi: Kevin Mandolese

(10 - 5 - 3)

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

Injured/Unavailable: Morgan Frost
Scratched/Taxi: Andy Andreoff, Carsen Twarynski, Nicolas Aubé-Kubel

LD	RD
Ivan Provorov [A]	Shayne Gostisbehere
Travis Sanheim	Justin Braun
Robert Hägg	Philippe Myers

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Nate Prosser, Erik Gustafsson

G
Carter Hart
Brian Elliott

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Lyon

(12 - 7 - 1)

LW	C	RW
Jake Guentzel	Evgeni Malkin [A]	Bryan Rust
Brandon Tanev	Jared McCann	Kasperi Kapanen
Zach Aston-Reese	Teddy Blueger	Sam Lafferty
Josh Currie	Anthony Angello	Colton Sceviour

Injured/Unavailable: Evan Rodrigues, Jason Zucker, Mark Jankowski, Sidney Crosby [C]
Scratched/Taxi: Drew O'Connor, Frédérick Gaudreau

LD	RD
Marcus Pettersson	Kris Letang [A]
Michael Matheson	John Marino
Mark Friedman	Cody Ceci

Injured/Unavailable: Juuso Riikola, Brian Dumoulin
Scratched/Taxi: Yannick Weber, Chad Ruhwedel, Pierre-Oliver Joseph

G
Tristan Jarry
Casey DeSmith

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Emil Larmi

(15 - 4 - 0)

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

Injured/Unavailable: Nikita Kucherov, Mitchell Stephens
Scratched/Taxi: Alex Barré-Boulet, Alexander Volkov, Gemel Smith

LD	RD
Victor Hedman [A]	Mikhail Sergachev
Ryan McDonagh [A]	Erik Černák
Jan Rutta	Cal Foote

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Andreas Borgman, Luke Schenn

G
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Christopher Gibson

(17 - 4 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Joe Thornton	John Tavares [C]	Mitch Marner [A]
Alexander Barabanov	Alexander Kerfoot	William Nylander
Ilya Mikheyev	Pierre Engvall	Zach Hyman
Jimmy Vesey	Travis Boyd	Jason Spezza

Injured/Unavailable: Wayne Simmonds, Auston Matthews [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Sabourin, Kenny Agostino, Nic Petan

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Timothy Liljegren, Mikko Lehtonen

G
Michael Hutchinson
Joseph Woll

Injured/Unavailable: Frederik Andersen, Jack Campbell
Scratched/Taxi:

(12 - 5 - 4)

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

Injured/Unavailable: Evgeny Kuznetsov
Scratched/Taxi: Daniel Carr, Brian Pinho, Philippe Maillet

LD	RD
Brenden Dillon	John Carlson [A]
Dmitry Orlov	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

(6 - 11 - 5)

LW	C	RW
Max Comtois	Ryan Getzlaf [C]	Max Jones
Trevor Zegras	Adam Henrique	Jakob Silfverberg [A]
Sonny Milano	Isac Lundeström	Rickard Rakell
Nicolas Deslauriers	Sam Steel	Derek Grant

Injured/Unavailable: Carter Rowney
Scratched/Taxi: David Backes, Danton Heinen, Troy Terry

LD	RD
Cam Fowler [A]	Jani Hakanpää
Josh Mahura	Kevin Shattenkirk
Jacob Larsson	Ben Hutton

Injured/Unavailable: Brendan Guhle, Josh Manson [A], Hampus Lindholm
Scratched/Taxi: Andy Welenski

G
John Gibson
Ryan Miller

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Anthony Stolarz

(9 - 9 - 3)

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

Injured/Unavailable: John Hayden, Conor Garland
Scratched/Taxi: Hudson Fasching

LD	RD
Oliver Ekman-Larsson [C]	Ilya Lyubushkin
Jakob Chychrun	Alex Goligoski
Jordan Oesterle	Niklas Hjalmarsson [A]

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Aaron Ness, Jordan Gross, Jason Demers

G
Darcy Kuemper
Antti Raanta

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Adin Hill, David Tendeck

(10 - 11 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Johnny Gaudreau	Sean Monahan [A]	Elias Lindholm
Matthew Tkachuk [A]	Mikael Backlund	Andrew Mangiapane
Milan Lucic	Sam Bennett	Dillon Dubé
Dominik Simon	Joakim Nordström	Josh Leivo

Injured/Unavailable: Derek Ryan
Scratched/Taxi: Brett Ritchie, Zac Rinaldo, Buddy Robinson, Byron Froese

LD	RD
Mark Giordano [C]	Rasmus Andersson
Noah Hanifin	Christopher Tanev
Juuso Välimäki	Nikita Nesterov

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Michael Stone, Oliver Kylington

G
David Rittich
Artyom Zagidulin

Injured/Unavailable: Jacob Markström
Scratched/Taxi:

(12 - 7 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Alex DeBrincat	Pius Suter	Patrick Kane [A]
Brandon Hagel	David Kampf	Dominik Kubalík
Mattias Janmark	Carl Söderberg	Philipp Kurashev
Matthew Highmore	Lucas Wallmark	Ryan Carpenter

Injured/Unavailable: Kirby Dach, Zack Smith, Jonathan Toews [C], Alexander Nylander, Andrew Shaw, Dylan Strome
Scratched/Taxi: Brad Morrison, Mikael Hakkarainen

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

Injured/Unavailable: Brent Seabrook [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Madison Bowey

G
Kevin Lankinen
Malcolm Subban

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Matt Tomkins, Collin Delia

(11 - 7 - 1)

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

Injured/Unavailable: Matt Calvert
Scratched/Taxi: Sheldon Dries, Kiefer Sherwood

LD	RD
Ryan Graves	Samuel Girard
Jacob MacDonald	Devon Toews
Daniel Renouf	Conor Timmins

Injured/Unavailable: Erik Johnson [A], Dennis Gilbert, Cale Makar
Scratched/Taxi: Bowen Byram

G
Phillip Grubauer
Adam Werner

Injured/Unavailable: Pavel Francouz
Scratched/Taxi: Hunter Miska

(6 - 7 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Jamie Benn [C]	Jason Dickinson	Joe Pavelski
Jason Robertson	Roope Hintz	Denis Gurianov
Andrew Cogliano	Radek Faksa	Blake Comeau [A]
Tanner Kero	Justin Dowling	Nicholas Caamano

Injured/Unavailable: Tyler Seguin [A], Alexander Radulov [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Joel L'Esperance, Rhett Gardner, Ty Dellandrea, Joel Kiviranta

LD	RD
Esa Lindell [A]	John Klingberg [A]
Jamie Oleksiak	Miro Heiskanen
Joel Hanley	Mark Pysyk

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Taylor Fedun, Andrej Sekera

G
Anton Khudobin
Jake Oettinger

Injured/Unavailable: Ben Bishop
Scratched/Taxi: Landon Bow

(14 - 10 - 0)

LW	C	RW
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins [A]	Connor McDavid [C]	Jesse Puljujarvi
Dominik Kahun	Leon Draisaitl [A]	Kailer Yamamoto
Tyler Ennis	Jujhar Khaira	Josh Archibald
Patrick Russell	Gaëtan Haas	Alex Chiasson

Injured/Unavailable: Zack Kassian, James Neal
Scratched/Taxi: Joakim Nygård, Devin Shore, Kyle Turris

LD	RD
Darnell Nurse [A]	Tyson Barrie
Caleb Jones	Adam Larsson [A]
Evan Bouchard	Ethan Bear

Injured/Unavailable: Oscar Klefbom, William Lagesson, Slater Koekkeok
Scratched/Taxi: Theodor Lennström, Kris Russell

G
Mike Smith
Mikko Koskinen

Injured/Unavailable: Alex Stalock
Scratched/Taxi: Dylan Wells

(9 - 7 - 4)

LW	C	RW
Alex Iafallo	Anže Kopitar [C]	Dustin Brown
Andreas Athanasiou	Gabe Vilardi	Jeff Carter [A]
Carl Grundström	Michael Amadio	Adrian Kempe
Trevor Moore	Blake Lizotte	Austin Wagner

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Drake Rymsha, Martin Frk, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Matt Luff

LD	RD
Mikey Anderson	Drew Doughty [A]
Olli Määttä	Sean Walker
Tobias Björnfot	Matt Roy

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Markus Phillips, Daniel Brickley, Kurtis MacDermid

G
Jonathan Quick
Cal Peterson

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Matt Villalta

(12 - 6 - 1)

LW	C	RW
Kirill Kaprizov	Victor Rask	Mats Zuccarello
Jordan Greenway	Joel Eriksson Ek	Kevin Fiala
Zach Parise [A]	Ryan Hartman	Marcus Foligno
Nico Sturm	Nick Bonino	Nick Bjugstad

Injured/Unavailable: Marco Rossi, Marcus Johansson
Scratched/Taxi: Kyle Rau, Luke Johnson, Gerald Mayhew

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

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

G
Cam Talbot
Kaapo Kähkönen

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Andrew Hammond

(10 - 12 - 0)

LW	C	RW
Filip Forsberg [A]	Mikael Granlund	Eeli Tolvanen
Rocco Grimaldi	Matt Duchene	Calle Järnkrok
Nick Cousins	Erik Haula	Viktor Arvidsson
Tanner Jeannot	Colton Sissons	Mathieu Olivier

Injured/Unavailable: Brad Richardson, Ryan Johansen [A], Luke Kunin
Scratched/Taxi: Anthony Richard, Michael McCarron, Yakov Trenin

LD	RD
Roman Josi [C]	Dante Fabbro
Mattias Ekholm [A]	Alexandre Carrier
Ben Harpur	Matt Benning

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

G
Pekka Rinne
Juuse Saros

Injured/Unavailable: Connor Ingram
Scratched/Taxi: Kasimir Kaskisuo

(8 - 9 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Evander Kane	Logan Couture [C]	Kevin Labanc
Rūdolfs Balcers	Dylan Gambrell	Timo Meier
John Leonard	Patrick Marleau [A]	Ryan Donato
Marcus Sörensen	Alex True	Matt Nieto

Injured/Unavailable: Tomáš Hertl [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Kurtis Gabriel, Joel Kellman, Joachim Blichfeld

LD	RD
Marc-Édouard Vlasic	Erik Karlsson [A]
Mario Ferraro	Brent Burns [A]
Radim Šimek	Nikolai Knyzhov

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Nick DeSimone, Fredrik Claesson

G
Martin Jones
Devan Dubnyk

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Josef Korenar

(12 - 8 - 2)

LW	C	RW
Zach Sanford	Ryan O'Reilly [C]	Jordan Kyrou
Nathan Walker	Brayden Schenn [A]	David Perron
Sammy Blais	Oskar Sundqvist	Mike Hoffman
Kyle Clifford	Dakota Joshua	Mackenzie MacEachern

Injured/Unavailable: Vladimir Tarasenko [A], Tyler Bozak, Robert Thomas, Jaden Schwartz, Ivan Barbashev, Jacob de la Rose
Scratched/Taxi: Sam Anas, Austin Poganski

LD	RD
Torey Krug	Justin Faulk
Vince Dunn	Marco Scandella
Niko Mikkola	Robert Bortuzzo

Injured/Unavailable: Carl Gunnarsson, Colton Parayko [A]
Scratched/Taxi: Scott Perunovich, Steven Santini, Jake Walman

G
Jordan Binnington
Ville Husso

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Joel Hofer

(9 - 15 - 2)

LW	C	RW
J.T. Miller	Elias Pettersson	Brock Boeser
Tanner Pearson	Bo Horvat [C]	Jake Virtanen
Nils Höglander	Adam Gaudette	Brandon Sutter [A]
Antoine Roussel	Jay Beagle	Zack MacEwen

Injured/Unavailable: Tyler Motte, Justin Bailey
Scratched/Taxi: Marc Michaelis, Loui Eriksson, Jayce Hawryluk

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Ashton Sautner, Guillaume Brisebois, Jalen Chatfield, Olli Juolevi

G
Braden Holtby
Thatcher Demko

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Michael DiPietro

(13 - 4 - 1)

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Tomáš Jurčo, Tyrell Goulbourne, Nicolas Roy

LD	RD
Shea Theodore	Alex Pietrangelo [A]
Alec Martinez	Zach Whitecloud
Nicolas Hague	Dylan Coghlan

Injured/Unavailable: Brayden McNabb
Scratched/Taxi: Nick Holden

G
Marc-André Fleury
Oscar Dansk

Injured/Unavailable: Robin Lehner
Scratched/Taxi:

(14 - 8 - 1)

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

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Dominic Toninato, David Gustafsson, Kristian Vesalainen, Jansen Harkins

LD	RD
Josh Morrissey [A]	Tucker Poolman
Derek Forbort	Neal Pionk
Nathan Beaulieu	Dylan DeMelo

Injured/Unavailable:
Scratched/Taxi: Nelson Nogier, Logan Stanley, Sami Niku

G
Connor Hellebuyck
Laurent Brossoit

Injured/Unavailable: Eric Comrie
Scratched/Taxi: Anton Forsberg

 

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).