Hey I’m a Florida fan: quick Q question. Did he run 4 lines often that were balanced? As of now it looks like we are in a couple of wingers that will give us like 7 wingers who scored 20 last year and we are trying to figure out if our 4th line might be more offensively oriented than usual. (Like Vatrano-Acciari-Hinonstroza as the 4th)
As a fan, our offseason is up in the air: we added good pieces but clearly we have space to add a bigger piece that we need.
The idea of D. Strome is interesting but I am not sure how much sense he makes with Lundell in the wing. Would Weegar work as the main piece back?
Usually he had a 4th line that was hard matched against the top offensive lines of the other team. He rolled 4 lines this way (quite a lot of ice time for the 4th) but only to have them flip the ice, shut down the other good line and set the table for a good line change. It wasnt in the today's sense of let's roll for offensively capable lines. Although our 4th lines were never scrubs, we had the luxury of having a defensive beast line always, you could maybe say they were like a shutdown 3rs line.
His other three lines balanced a lot, obviously separating Toews and Kane most of the time. In the playoffs he didn't a lot of balancing too.
But Q loves his matchups and he's really good at that style. If he's changing it now to 'let's roll 4 lines without specific matchups/roles in mind', that would be pretty surprising to me. Would be quite the change.
Oh and I'd do Strome for Weegar hell yeah. After bringing in Zadorov we would have to move cap around so I'm not sure it's on the table.
