Pre-Game Talk: NYR vs. CAR - 10/16/2014 - 7:00 PM ET

[Killem Dafoe]

We should be able to win this. But we also should have been able to beat the Islanders.

 

[Algernop Kreider]

Just updated it. forgot to add him in. apologies

Kreider - Hayes - Nash
Duclair - Brassard - Zuccarello
Hagelin - Miller - MSL
Malone - Moore - Stempniak



Agreed... MSL at center is a stop gap at best. We're not putting guys into a position to succeed with him at center. Hayes is more comfortable at wing however, so I wonder if that keeps MSL at center:

Kreider-MSL-Nash
Duclair-Brassard-Stempniak/Zucc
Hagelin-Miller-Stempniak/Zucc
Malone-Moore-Glass/Fast

I would switch Kreider and Duclair. We've seen that Duclair and Nash play well together, and that Kreider and Zucc do as well. What I don't like is Zuccarello playing with a rookie on his opposite wing while he's in this funk.

 

[Gardner McKay]

GDT is up.