Line Combos: Engvall-Kampf-Mikheyev Appreciation Post

[ViewsFromThe6ix]

I think we have a large enough sample of these three getting hard matched to the other teams best players, buried in the dzone night after night and outplaying their opposition to talk about how crazy this line is. All three guys are rangy, tenacious, and fast. One of, if not the best checking lines in hockey for under 4 mil.

Another great night from these three tonight after shutting down the Hintz/Pavelski/Robertson trio the game prior.

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[zeke]

Fantastic line. Big fast relentless responsible and with some skill too.

Reminds me of the classic Osborne-Zezel-Berg line for the Burns Leafs.

 

[dubplatepressure]

Great line overall. I still curse Engvalls name 2-3 times every game.

 

[saffronleaf]

Love it. The bottom six was a weakness at one point, but these guys are turning that around.

 

[saffronleaf]

Great line overall. I still curse Engvalls name 2-3 times every game.

I like that he's getting ever so slightly meaner

 

[Burnie97]

Great line overall. I still curse Engvalls name 2-3 times every game.

Waiting for @Teeder Keon response here lol.

It'll probably involve a giraffe but I will say... 3rd line has been fantastic.

Engvall lately has been impressing but he still has those moments in the offensive zone where I think he just finished a session with cheech and chong.

Jokes aside they deserve the praise forsure. If Leafs get this in the playoffs I think it'll go a long way.

 

[Sypher04]

Our 1st and 3rd lines are elite.

We need to find the sauce to get the 2nd and 4th going more and we will be downright impossible to stop

 

[Teeder Keon]

Waiting for @Teeder Keon response here lol.

It'll probably involve a giraffe but I will say... 3rd line has been fantastic.

Engvall lately has been impressing but he still has those moments in the offensive zone where I think he just finished a session with cheech and chong.

Jokes aside they deserve the praise forsure. If Leafs get this in the playoffs I think it'll go a long way.

Can’t argue with those takes you make !

 

[Teeder Keon]

Waiting for @Teeder Keon response here lol.

It'll probably involve a giraffe but I will say... 3rd line has been fantastic.

Engvall lately has been impressing but he still has those moments in the offensive zone where I think he just finished a session with cheech and chong.

Jokes aside they deserve the praise forsure. If Leafs get this in the playoffs I think it'll go a long way.

Our third line

“ The Zoo Line “

 

[crump]

Engvall is the sword of Damocles

 

[Leaffan1991]

I wish we could keep this line intact next year but Mik is likely leaving..
it would be nice to have it still and then fourth line should just be an agitator, physical forecheck line. Right now our fourth line has no identity

 

[BertCorbeau]

Speed, defensive awarenesses, and tenacity. It's a nice combination.

Even if they don't generate a lot of offense, you can rely on them to keep the puck out of your net and also push a good forecheck to gain some momentum.

 

[Apotheosis]

Hopefully Miky takes a friendly deal so we can keep that line together.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

I always believed in Engvall and Micky through thick and thin. Kampf has been a nice addition. All three can fore check and skate well. I'm not surprised other teams are having fits. The reach, the size all of it they got it.

 

[123offtheglass]

Engvall really playing to his potential now. The shutdown ability, speed, reach & strength of this line is hard to match up against.

I love seeing other teams' top lines chase them around.

 

[Lauro]

Love 'em.

 

[Frostitute]

3rd line has been absolutely fantastic. Like a lot of people I am still seeing some things I don't like with Engvall but he seems to be improving.

Kind of reminds me of Gardiner in a sense, although they obviously play different positions. All the skill and skating ability in the world but makes bone headed plays that stand out and is afraid of contact.

No one is perfect though and at his price, let alone his level of experience, I should probably just stfu lmao.

Keeper goin' boys! Do this in the playoffs and imma have to buy me a Kämpf sweater.

 

[saltming]

Love it. The bottom six was a weakness at one point, but these guys are turning that around.

I think at this point they are top 9 not bottom 6

 

[saltming]

Engvall is the sword of Damocles

The rock of sisyphus?

 

[Sypher04]

I wonder if there’s any convincing Mik to stay. Even 1 more year after this would be huge. Considering we just found this elite 3rd line combo this year, it will suck if this one season/playoff is all we get from it.

 

[ToneDog]

Thanks to this #3 line, if Dubas can find a "heavy" top 6 LWer to play with Tavares, imagine a 4th line of Kerfoot, Spezza, Kase or Clifford, Kerfoot, Kase if you need some muscle. All of a sudden you might have scoring depth that cannot be contained.

 

[ToneDog]

I wonder if there’s any convincing Mik to stay. Even 1 more year after this would be huge. Considering we just found this elite 3rd line combo this year, it will suck if this one season/playoff is all we get from it.

Show him the money and he will stay.

 

[Twine Tickler]

This line has been outstanding. Micheyev is such a beast. I really hope we can convince him to resign. Such an intelligent hockey player. He knows when to take the ice that's given to him, and he just has a motor on him that is always running at top gear. Even in his scoring woes last season, he was an extremely effective player. Now that he is contributing offensively, it's just a massive bonus.

I know he had requested a trade before, but I hope we have mended that relationship. He's just too valuable down the lineup IMO

 

[zeke]

The rock of sisyphus?

Mikheyev and Engvall are Schylla and Charybidis.

Which makes Kampf Odysseus.

 

[seanlinden]

If only Mikheyev had an actual "move" once he drives to the net.... I don't think I've ever seen a guy use his skating so well to get clear paths to the net, but then have absolutely no idea what to do with it.

That being said, you have to give huge kudos to this trio for how they're controlling the puck. The one concern I have for the Leafs going in with these guys as the 3rd line, is whether they have enough of a physical edge to wear down other teams star players.