I think it’s time to break up the Protas/CMM/Mantha line, they’ve stagnated recently and can use a shakeup. Oshie has been great these games, but when TJ Oshie looks like one of your fastest and most dynamic players at this point in his career that’s really saying something about your team.
Obviously Lindgren is the teams true number one, I don’t think anyone is going to argue that, but this is also why I just kind of shrug when Kuemper has bad games. Too often even if our goalie stood on their head and made miraculous saves all game we’d still end up losing 2-1.
Also Lapierre isn’t quite ready for full time work in the NHL and can use more time to progress, but even with that he would still be a large upgrade to Kuznetsov each night. Can we please just say goodbye to Kuznetsov.