Pre-Game Talk: Canadiens @ Penguins | Perron's debut

[cheesedanish87]

Spaling - Crosby - Perron
Rust - Malkin - Downie
Kunitz - Sutter - Bennett
?

Who knows, MJ lines are very unpredictable, who would of ever guessed Geno would be on a line with Rust and Ebbett.

To me it makes the most sense to give each center 1 solid winger, i'd like to see MJ go back to his pairs.

Kunitz/Geno
Perron/Sid
BB/Sutter

 

[GreatjonUmber]

Missed the game last night. Did Kunitz get moved down to the third line?

 

[Waffle Fries]

I normally trust Renaud, but how would he know?

He somehow knows everything that happens with the French guys on this team.

 

[Frederick Stanley]

Ya... I love and hate Toronto.

If it wasn't for the Island and St. Lawrence Market, I'd say **** it. Of course, I was right on top of St. Jakes... Until it burned down and all.

Ripleys is cool though. Saw it in Sept.

Really? It was kind of underwhelming to be honest. I had to wait 2 hours in line to finally get in and it took me about an hour to see everything.

 

[AquaticBirdman]

Injuries be damned, how did Rust solidify a regular spot for himself on the top 6!

 

[AquaticBirdman]

Missed the game last night. Did Kunitz get moved down to the third line?

"3rd line" is a very loose term. It sees enough ES ice time to be considered 2nd line 2.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Really? It was kind of underwhelming to be honest. I had to wait 2 hours in line to finally get in and it took me about an hour to see everything.

We bought the timestamp passes, so we walked right in.

That probably made my experience much more pleasant.

It's not the Boston Aquarium, but Ripleys is nice. The underwater tunnel probably swayed me along with seeing the engineer room, which was crazy.

 

[Stad]

Missed the game last night. Did Kunitz get moved down to the third line?

Yeah, he's been there for a couple games now.

 

[Fordy]

Injuries be damned, how did Rust solidify a regular spot for himself on the top 6!

By playing well and generating turnovers and offense

 

[IcedCapp]

"3rd line" is a very loose term. It sees enough ES ice time to be considered 2nd line 2.

Well, Kunitz and Bennett are top-6 players on most teams, so...

I would be ecstatic if you could look at the Pens top-9 and say, "wow, they have three really good second lines"

That's depth, IMO.

 

[IcedCapp]

Ya... I love and hate Toronto.

If it wasn't for the Island and St. Lawrence Market, I'd say **** it. Of course, I was right on top of St. Jakes... Until it burned down and all.

Ripleys is cool though. Saw it in Sept.

I have the same love hate with Toronto. So many great aspects of the city... But infrastructure, traffic, taxes and prices... My goodness.

 

[Frederick Stanley]

I have the same love hate with Toronto. So many great aspects of the city... But infrastructure, traffic, taxes and prices... My goodness.

Mass transit is worse than in Vienna and Toronto has about 3 million more people.

 

[GreatjonUmber]

Yeah, he's been there for a couple games now.

Thanks. For some reason people in Toronto were playing only Leafs games for the past few days. Just turrible.

 

[IcedCapp]

Mass transit is worse than in Vienna and Toronto has about 3 million more people.

Toronto tries... Which is more than I can say for 99% of American cities, but they need help.

 

[cheesedanish87]

Injuries be damned, how did Rust solidify a regular spot for himself on the top 6!

He hasn't, he played 9 minutes last night, he got benched for Adams when the pens had the lead, MJ obviously doesn't trust him.

 

[Country Mac]

I want Perron-Sid-Downie

****ing stoked as hell for this game

 

[Waffle Fries]

So right now we've got

Perron-Crosby-X1
X2-Geno-X3
Kunitz-Sutter-Bennett
X4-Goc-X5


X1, X2, X3 as some combination of Downie, Spaling, Rust

X4 and X5 as some combination of Farnham, Ebbett, Adams

 

[wej20]

He hasn't, he played 9 minutes last night, he got benched for Adams when the pens had the lead, MJ obviously doesn't trust him.

Which is strange because he's been good defensively and the only penalties he had was for his "fight" against Columbus.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

So right now we've got

Perron-Crosby-X1
X2-Geno-X3
Kunitz-Sutter-Bennett
X4-Goc-X5


X1, X2, X3 as some combination of Downie, Spaling, Rust

X4 and X5 as some combination of Farnham, Ebbett, Adams

I'm 99% certain x1 is Downie tonight.

As for Adams, why didn't you just pencil him onto the fourth line?

 

[Sideline]

Toronto tries... Which is more than I can say for 99% of American cities, but they need help.

Andy Byford is the best thing to happen to this city in a long time. He's managed to get capacity up on the subway by more than 10% without any substantial cost increases on a system with 50 year old infrastructure. If we just gave the man some money to work with who knows what he could figure out.

 

[BumFortyOne]

So right now we've got

Perron-Crosby-X1
X2-Geno-X3
Kunitz-Sutter-Bennett
X4-Goc-X5


X1, X2, X3 as some combination of Downie, Spaling, Rust

X4 and X5 as some combination of Farnham, Ebbett, Adams

Yep. X1 as a placeholder for Hornqvist, X2/3 as placeholders for Comeau and a trade acquisition.

As exciting as it's going to be when the top six is completed, the bottom six is going to be outstanding heading into the playoffs.

Spaling-Goc-Downie wouldn't be unacceptable as a third line for a fringe playoff team.

 

[Darth Vitale]

I'm from the future. We have things called DVRs. They record live TV!

We also have space cars:

Jelly?

This is the last straw. First no one tells me about Perron now I hear of this DVR and space cars thing.

Screw this game, screw this team, and screw all of you; I'm going to watch the Wolves / Ice Hogs. It's like Bears-Packers, Pens-Flyers, Yankees-RedSox all rolled up into one. Game of the Century*â„¢.

I heard we're acquiring Jake Chelios for the playoff run, but I want you all to remain calm -- I will have a detailed scouting report soon.

 

[Waffle Fries]

I'm 99% certain x1 is Downie tonight.

As for Adams, why didn't you just pencil him onto the fourth line?

I was trying to be optimistic

So...

Perron-Crosby-Downie
Spaling-Malkin-Rust
Kunitz-Sutter-Bennett
Farnham/Ebbett-Goc-Adams

Although I suppose MJ could put Ebbett-Malkin-Rust back together.

I'll be pretty disappointed if Farnham is the scratch.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

I was trying to be optimistic

So...

Perron-Crosby-Downie
Spaling-Malkin-Rust
Kunitz-Sutter-Bennett
Farnham/Ebbett-Goc-Adams

Although I suppose MJ could put Ebbett-Malkin-Rust back together.

I'll be pretty disappointed if Farnham is the scratch.

Farnham will be phased out eventually. When the team is fully healthy, it will basically be between Adams and Farnham.

We knows how it goes.

 

[KIRK]

it'll probably be:

Spaling - Crosby - Downie
Ebbett - Malkin - Perron

(JR said that Perron would be playing RW until the team is healthy).

I would also say that I fully expect

Perron - Malkin - Hornqvist when Hornqvist returns. They were already putting Horny back on that line before he got injured.

1. The only way I'd ever see this being a bright idea is if JR has a blockbuster deal in his back pocket. And, I mean a blockbuster for a Kane/JVR caliber linemate for Sid. As discussed yesterday, he's got the assets and can find the cap space to do it.

2. That said, I always thought those two would be with Sid and we'd see some addition for Malkin to play with Kunitz or Perron.