MLD Semi Finals: Erie Blades v Norfolk Admirals

[ResilientBeast]

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[ResilientBeast]

If people post we'll go until Friday otherwise we'll call it wednesday

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[ResilientBeast]

Coach: Alain Vigneault

Pavol Demitra --- John Tavares (A) --- Real Cloutier
Ray Whitney --- Tyler Seguin --- Terry O'Reilly
Jack Adams --- Mikko Koivu (C) --- Brian Bellows
Rejean Houle --- Bill Hay (A) --- Bruce MacGregor

Mattias Ohlund --- Charlie Huddy
Steve Smith --- Fred Lake
Don Awrey --- Mike Green

Ron Hextall
Evgeni Nabokov​

 

[tinyzombies]

Maybe we should throw a bunch of referees past and present in a hopper before we draft our teams? O'Reilly on the second line could result in lots of PK's, but I bet he draws just as much?

 

[Habsfan18]

RB, buddy. My main question with your lineup is that I’m really not sure what role that 3rd line is supposed to play? Koivu is obviously a solid two-way 3rd liner who can play a nice little shutdown/defensive role, but then when you include Adams and especially Cloutier I’m just not sure what the identity is there? It’s just a bit random when you consider Cloutier may be your best scoring winger (Bellows will provide some offense too) and he’s sitting there on what we are to assume is intended to be a two-way 3rd line?

Also not crazy about O’Reilly on that 2nd line. I’m really unsure about the fit of those 3 as a three-man unit. I don’t really see the chemistry.

Just thinking out loud here, but what about putting Cloutier on that top line, Bellows dropping down to the 2nd, and O’Reilly can slot in on that 3rd line to make it more of a “checking” type line? I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought so I could be missing something but at first glance it could make sense.

That being said, I was still surprised to see you finish 6th in regular season voting. Thought you deserved better than that. It will be an uphill battle to upset Erie though, IMO. The Blades are very solid, all around.

 

[ResilientBeast]

RB, buddy. My main question with your lineup is that I’m really not sure what role that 3rd line is supposed to play? Koivu is obviously a solid two-way 3rd liner who can play a nice little shutdown/defensive role, but then when you include Adams and especially Cloutier I’m just not sure what the identity is there? It’s just a bit random when you consider Cloutier may be your best scoring winger (Bellows will provide some offense too) and he’s sitting there on what we are to assume is intended to be a two-way 3rd line?

Also not crazy about O’Reilly on that 2nd line. I’m really unsure about the fit of those 3 as a three-man unit. I don’t really see the chemistry.

Just thinking out loud here, but what about putting Cloutier on that top line, Bellows dropping down to the 2nd, and O’Reilly can slot in on that 3rd line to make it more of a “checking” type line? I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought so I could be missing something but at first glance it could make sense.

That being said, I was still surprised to see you finish 6th in regular season voting. Thought you deserved better than that. It will be an uphill battle to upset Erie though, IMO. The Blades are very solid, all around.

I agree, my team building got a little funky by picking Tavares and Seguin to be my top 2 centers and then having to find two players with some degree of intangible to balance out the lines.

As of right now it's the same as my other lines really where I have one guy to backcheck (Koivu), one guy to dig for the puck and play physical (Adams) and a one dimensional scorer to round it off.

 

[ResilientBeast]

On the eve of voting, made the change suggested by Habsfan, maybe it'll move the needle

 

[Habsfan18]

Voted.

 

[tinyzombies]

Just thinking out loud here, but what about putting Cloutier on that top line, Bellows dropping down to the 2nd, and O’Reilly can slot in on that 3rd line to make it more of a “checking” type line? I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought so I could be missing something but at first glance it could make sense.

That being said, I was still surprised to see you finish 6th in regular season voting. Thought you deserved better than that. It will be an uphill battle to upset Erie though, IMO. The Blades are very solid, all around.

So it's now:

Norfolk:

Coach: Alain Vigneault

Pavol Demitra --- John Tavares (A) --- Real Cloutier
Ray Whitney --- Tyler Seguin --- Brian Bellows
Jack Adams --- Mikko Koivu (C) --- Terry O'Reilly
Rejean Houle --- Bill Hay (A) --- Bruce MacGregor

Mattias Ohlund --- Charlie Huddy
Steve Smith --- Fred Lake
Don Awrey --- Mike Green

Ron Hextall
Evgeni Nabokov

vs

Erie Blades

coach Claude Julien

Harry Watson - Frank McGee (C) - Kenny Wharram
Camille Henry - Billy Burch (A) - Vladimir Vikulov
Mats Naslund - Vladimir Shadrin - Johnny Peirson
The MPH Line: Dennis Hull - Pit Martin - Jim Pappin
J.P. Parise, Bobby Smith, Jeff Carter

Bert Corbeau (A) - Ron Greschner
Taffy Abel - Battleship Leduc
Craig Ludwig - John Carlson
Keith Magnuson

M-A Fleury
Cheesey

 

[Habsfan18]

I believe the only swap RB made was Cloutier and Bellows. O’Reilly is still slotted on that 2nd line.

 

[Johnny Engine]

Erie Blades defeat Norfolk Admirals in 6

3 stars:
1. John Tavares
2. Camille Henry
3. Pavol Demitra