A change I would make to the composition of the team

[dortt]

Things are going quite well, especially with the PP

A major change I would make is to add major toughness to the 4th line and maybe a Barnaby/Kaleta type.

Now, yes, this is not the 1990s. However, a parade to the penalty box will give us the major advantage. Yes, we'd be taking tons of penalties. But so would the other team in retaliation. With out PP, we'd be coming out ahead in the VAST majority of those games.

Basically, I'd like to see us develop a game plan and lineup that allows us to maximize our PP potential. Not get a tough team for the sole purpose of fighting. But use the toughness tactically to create a game with alternating PPs. Then let Jack and Dahlin do their thing and get us the wins.

Somewhat out of the box thinking, but as long the PP isn't coached by Housley again (the bad PP the last 2 years was his fault as it was elite under both Bylsma and now Krueger), we will have the special teams advantage

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[Beerz]

I miss the 90's

 

[dortt]

I miss the 90's

I'm not even thinking about fighting. I just want a tactic to ensure that our PP gets 8 chances a game

 

[Jim Carr's Rug]

Yawn. You want to draw penalties? skate faster than your opponent.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Play stupid, hope the other team retaliates enough to even out the PPs...what could go wrong?!?

 

[debaser66]

Why change the only line that is constantly working well?

 

[TehDoak]

While I do like the role of an agitator, for it to work these days, it needs to be a Tom Wilson/Brad Marchand type. The 4th line pat kaleta pest has been suspended out of the league. They need to be legit players whose role is well beyond playing physical. I remember in Kaleta's last season, he couldn't touch another player without getting a penalty. It was way over the top. It forced him out of the league.

 

[Myllz]

I'm not entirely sure how a Kaleta would help us. For all the powerplays they might draw, he'd be dead weight any other time on the ice, plus would take negative plays to counterbalance. You could argue that as long as our powerplay has a better net effect than our penalty kill it's still a positive, but playing a guy capable of nothing else just for that seems like a waste. As Doak mentions, it would need to be someone capable of more than just stirring the pot.

 

[Buffaloed]

 

[Chainshot]

So this agitator is going to play in place of Sheary or Vesey?

Let's work the guy who draws a ridiculous amount of penalties into the lineup for a longer sample before they have to go out and get another. (That would be Rodrigues.)

 

[StlSwedes]

Yawn. You want to draw penalties? skate faster than your opponent.

This is my feelings as well. Want to go on the PP, play fast in the opponents defensive zone. Not good it up.

 

[valet]

i think it would be better to have players like vesey and sobotka in the pressbox for guys like erod and tage

lines could be:

VO jack sam
skinner mojo erod
sheary mitts tage (who knows how they would be defensively but at least it gets vesey out of the picture)
girgs larry KO

 

[VaporTrail]

Give it a little bit..Pekar should be on the club in the not so distant future

 

[Chainshot]

Give it a little bit..Pekar should be on the club in the not so distant future

Probably two years.