Line Combos: Favorite Bruins line of the last 20 years

Beyonder91

RASMUS
Oct 13, 2006
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Toronto
Lucic-Savard-Kessel and it's not even close. They completely dominated that season...

Scary thing how good that line was and both Lucic/Kessel were nothing compared to where they are now. That was still Kessel's best goal scoring season...
 

BruinsBtn

Registered User
Dec 24, 2006
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Wheeler-Krejci-Ryder was my favorite. For a few months, that line was absolutely unstoppable, they played games entirely in the offensive zone.
 

Mainehockey33

Powerplay Specialist
Jul 15, 2011
10,225
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Maine
Can't find much good footage on youtube from 4+ years ago but this is a pretty good clip of Lucic-Savard-Kessel.





 

Kelly23

Pedroia and Drew
Nov 4, 2010
5,474
0
Boston
Ill do my top 4

Lucic-Savard-Kessel
Marchy-Bergy-Seguin
Wheeler-Krejci-Ryder
Lucic-Kelly-Seguin
 

Sea Bass Neely

Registered User
Jun 6, 2013
866
20
Rhode Island
Why not the KIL line?

I usually refer to that line as the KIL line, only sometimes do i occasionally arrange the letters as "LKI" and that is when any given thread goes into Theoretical Lineups mode.

Particularly when i am listing an entire lineup (all the B's lines not just one) i might start off with LKI only because i arrange the rest in a similar "positionally correct" manner.

Example, the line we discussed the other day -- and thank you for the compliment btw, i forgot to relay that -- i listed as Soderberg-Spooner-Eriksson because the template, for me anyhow, is normally to list them as:

LW - C - RW ----> Lucic-Krejci-Iginla

Of course Iggy is not centering that line... but the KIL line has not been tinkered with once so far this year, so as time goes on the positions are already implied since everyone knows the line i am referring to when i put "KIL" at the top of the list.

Sorry for the long-winded explanation, but my guess is that is normally (this is conjecture) the reason behind anybody arranging it with the K-for-Krejci in the middle. Because DK centers the line.

I've seen some people put LIK too, maybe because of the coincidence that it sounds out as "like". I dunno, but i'll stop now in any case :D
 

Sea Bass Neely

Registered User
Jun 6, 2013
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Rhode Island
Didn't Joe Juneau play with Oates and Neely?? I know that's a lot longer than 10 years ago and i was younger, just old enough to know what was going on... i play[ed] too, that helps.

That was my first favorite, or whatever line had Oates/Neely on it prior to Joey J's arrival. In the last 10 years it'd probably be Lucic-Savard-Kessel.

Partly because that is when Looch was still establishing himself as a premier tough-guy and fighter in the league, partly because of Savard's total epic-ness and playmaking, and partly because of Kessel's knack for scoring off that nice release.

Great line... what a shame what happened to poor Savvy :cry:
 

Frankie Spankie

Registered User
Feb 22, 2009
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389
Dorchester, MA
I don't know if it's just me but I personally liked the Samsonov-Thornton-Murray line a lot more than with Knuble in it when Samsonov went down for almost a whole season. Was really disappointed when they didn't put Samsonov back on that line.

Also another vote for me towards Sturm-Bergeron-Boyes. Most likely because of how **** the rest of the team was, likely why they looked so good.

Best line though for me is probably Lucic-Krejci-Horton in playoffs.
 

Justin St Pierre

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Dec 16, 2011
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That brief, glorious period in which we had Marchand - Campbell - Jagr. Campbell was at least a point per game in that stretch. It was amazing. Jagr's my favorite "good" player (Byron Bitz and Martin St. Pierre are always at the top for me), and Campbell's my favorite current Bruin, so that was a fun few games for me.

Honorable mention goes to that one time Matt Hunwick was Marc Savard's winger and couldn't stop scoring.

I guess I like weird mixes. I hate the circumstances that usually cause them, of course.
 

Neely08

Registered User
Mar 9, 2006
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99
North of Boston
Didn't Joe Juneau play with Oates and Neely?? I know that's a lot longer than 10 years ago and i was younger, just old enough to know what was going on... i play[ed] too, that helps.

That was my first favorite, or whatever line had Oates/Neely on it prior to Joey J's arrival. In the last 10 years it'd probably be Lucic-Savard-Kessel.

Partly because that is when Looch was still establishing himself as a premier tough-guy and fighter in the league, partly because of Savard's total epic-ness and playmaking, and partly because of Kessel's knack for scoring off that nice release.

Great line... what a shame what happened to poor Savvy :cry:

Yes. The same year where Neely scored 50 goals in 44 games. Juneau seemed to finally be the left wing Cam was waiting for his whole career. Magical season that ended in more frustration.

I can't choose between...
Lucic-Savvy-Kessel
Lucic- Krejci- Horton

or even the above lines vs...

Marchand-Bergeron-Recchi

But, I do lean towards the line up that won the Cup. Hard to choose between our top two lines due to the way this team is built, and what they have accomplished. They're both great lines, and both came up huge when we needed them to.

I can say my favorite 3rd line was easily Peverley-Kelly-Ryder.
 

Mainehockey33

Powerplay Specialist
Jul 15, 2011
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Maine
That brief, glorious period in which we had Marchand - Campbell - Jagr. Campbell was at least a point per game in that stretch. It was amazing. Jagr's my favorite "good" player (Byron Bitz and Martin St. Pierre are always at the top for me), and Campbell's my favorite current Bruin, so that was a fun few games for me.

Honorable mention goes to that one time Matt Hunwick was Marc Savard's winger and couldn't stop scoring.

I guess I like weird mixes. I hate the circumstances that usually cause them, of course.

That reminds me, didn't Paille score a hat trick playing on Savvy's wing? Savard really was a magician :laugh:
 

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