Predict Your Team's Opening Day Lineup

[Omni Owl]

Brown-Kopitar-Toffoli
King-Carter-Purcell
Mersch-Dowd-Lewis
Clifford-Andreoff-Setoguchi

McNabb-Doughty
Muzzin-Martinez
Forbort-Gilbert
Greene

Quick
Zatkoff

Our lineup is ****ed with Gaborik out and Pearson suspended for 2 games. Pearson should slot in on the top line when he returns...

 

[JurassicTunga]

My guess


Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Hunter Shinkaruk
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Troy Brouwer
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Michael Frolik
Lance Bouma - Matthew Stajan - Alex Chiasson

Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland - Dennis Wideman
Brett Kulak

Brian Elliott
Chad Johnson​

 

[Gargyn]

How the **** is that a cap team? That's gross and no way that team makes the playoffs. They have 3 top 9 forwards and 3 good dmen. I'm not sold on Pearson at all and Gaborik is injured all the time anyways.

 

[Bending and Tending]

Sheary - Crosby - Hornqvist
Kunitz - Malkin - Guentzel
Hagelin - Bonino - Kessel
Kuhnhackl - Cullen - Wilson

Letang - Dumoulin
Maatta - Daley
Schultz - Cole

Fleury
Jarry



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[plgilbert]

Domi-Hanzal-Vrbata
Rieder-Dvorak-Duclair
McGinn-Strome-Doan
Martinook-Richardson-White
Extra: Dauphin

OEL-Murphy
Goligoski-Stone
Chychrun-Schenn
Extra: Michalek, DeAngelo

Connauton will take Chychrun spot once he'll be back from his injury.

Smith
Domingue

 

[StayAtHomeAv]

Avalanche

Duchene - MacKinnon - Colborne
Landeskog - Soderberg - Comeau
Rantanen - Grigorenko - Iginla
R. Bourque - Mitchell - B. Smith
G. Bourque

Zadorov - E. Johnson
Beauchemin - Barrie
Wiercioch - Bigras
Gelinas, Tyutin

Varlamov
Pickard

 

[EdJovanovski]

Ideally:

Nash - Stepan - Zuccarello
Kreider - Zibanejad - Buchnevich
Vesey - Hayes - Miller
Grabner - Gerbe - Pirri

McDonagh - Klein
Staal - Clendening
Skjei - McIlrath

Lundqvist
Raanta


Most likely:

Nash - Stepan - Fast
Kreider - Zibanejad - Zuccarello
Glass - Miller - Grabner
Vesey - Hayes - Nieves

Staal - Girardi
McDonagh - Clendening
Holden - Klein

Lundqvist
Raanta

 

[Kryten]

D Sedin H Sedin Eriksson
Baertschi Horvat Rodin
Burrows Sutter Hansen
Virtanen Granlund Dorsett
Etem

Edler Tanev
Hutton Gudbransen
Sbisa Larsen
Tryamkin Biega

Miller
Markstrom

 

[Lapa]

Parise - Staal - Coyle
Granlund-Koivu-Stewart
Niederreiter - Haula - Pominville
Zucker - Eriksson-Ek - Dalpe

Suter - Spurgeon
Scandella - Dumba
Reilly - Brodin

Dubnyk
Kuemper​

I think Eriksson-Ek does a good enough job to stay with the Wild permanently. Four lines capable of scoring with a great defense. I like it.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Laine-Little-Ehlers
Perrault-Burmistrov-Dano
Matthias-Copp-Stafford
Peluso/Thorburn

Enstrom-Byfuglien
Morrissey-Myers
Postma-Chiarot
Strait

Hellebuyck
Hutchinson

 

[Male75FromFinland]

Lowry?

 

[MardyBum]

Judging from the lines so far :



Ehlers - Scheifele - Wheeler
Laine - Little - Armia
Connor - Perreault - Stafford
Matthias? - Lowry? - Burmistrov?

Enstrom - Byfuglien
Morrissey - Myers
Stuart? - Postma?

Pavelec?/Hellebuyck?/Hutchinson?

Top 9 is set for now imo, with PoMo mentioning the young guys will move around within the lines as needed (he mentioned pairs, so C/RW with the LW's moving up/down as needed to shake things up), we're still unsure of the bottom pairing and how high Morrissey will start in the lineup, who is going to be in our fourth line, and exactly what the **** they're going to do with the goaltending situation.

Tonights game should give a good idea on everything but goaltending.

 

[DirtyDangler 91]

Forwards
Komarov - Kadri - Michalek
vanRiemsdyk - Bozak - Marner
Hyman - Matthews - Nylander
Martin - Laich - Holland
Leivo

Defense
Marincin - Rielly
Gardiner - Carrick
Hunwick - Zaitsev
Polak, Corrado

Goalies
Andersen
Enroth​

First call ups: Brown, Soshnikov, Valiev

 

[Sideshow Raheem]

My guess


Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Hunter Shinkaruk
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Troy Brouwer
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Michael Frolik
Lance Bouma - Matthew Stajan - Alex Chiasson

Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland - Dennis Wideman
Brett Kulak

Brian Elliott
Chad Johnson​

Damn, that's pretty good. I think splitting Gio and Brodie could take them to another level too. Feeling good about my prediction the Flames make it over Anaheim.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Ovechkin - Kuznetsov - Oshie
Burakovsky - Backstrom - Williams
Sanford - Eller - Johansson
Winnik - Beagle - Wilson
Connolly/Galiev

Orpik - Carlson
Alzner - Niskanen
Schmidt - Orlov

Holtby
Grubauer

 

[Number 57]

Max Pacioretty - Alex Galchenyuk - Brendan Gallagher
Arturri Lehkonen - Tomas Plekanec - Alex Radulov
Daniel Carr - David Desharnais - Andrew Shaw
Phillip Danault - Torrey Mitchell - Michael McCarron
Sven Andrighetto

Nathan Beaulieu - Shea Weber
Andrei Markov - Jeff Petry
Mikhail Sergachyev - Greg Pateryn
Alexei Emelin - Zach Redmond

Carey Price - Al Montoya

IR: Brian Flynn, Paul Byron

 

[madmike77]

My guess


Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Hunter Shinkaruk
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Troy Brouwer
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Michael Frolik
Lance Bouma - Matthew Stajan - Alex Chiasson

Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland - Dennis Wideman
Brett Kulak

Brian Elliott
Chad Johnson​

Looks like a solid guess to me. I wouldn't have any changes.

 

[Mike Hasselhoffman]

My guess


Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Hunter Shinkaruk
Matthew Tkachuk - Sam Bennett - Troy Brouwer
Micheal Ferland - Mikael Backlund - Michael Frolik
Lance Bouma - Matthew Stajan - Alex Chiasson

Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Jyrki Jokipakka - Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland - Dennis Wideman
Brett Kulak

Brian Elliott
Chad Johnson​

Damn the Flames could really surprise this year, really liking what they've got so far. Of course this all hinges on Gaudreau signing ASAP, but I could definitely see them grabbing 3rd spot in the Pacific.

 

[Rufus]

Sheary - Crosby - Hornqvist
Guentzel - Malkin - Kessel
Kunitz - Bonino - Hagelin
Kuhnhackl - Cullen - Wilson

Letang - Dumoulin
Maatta - Daley
Schultz - Cole

Fleury
Jarry



​

I would be very, very surprised if Guentzel starts the year on the team, let alone on Malkin's line. He's an impressive player, but he needs a little more time in the AHL.

 

[danielpalfredsson]

Hoffman-Turris-Stone
Dzingel-Brassard-Ryan
Smith-Pageau-Pyatt
Kelly-Neil

Methot-Karlsson
Phaneuf-Ceci
Chabot-Wideman
Borowiecki

Anderson
Hammond

Boucher is apparently rolling with 7 defensemen/11 forwards in the lineup. Stone apparently projects to be back from his concussion in time for opening night. Pyatt seems to be Boucher's pet project, so I'd expect him in the lineup. That leaves one spot open for either Dzingel, Puempel, or Varone, all of whom seem to be the three top bubble guys in the pre-season. I really have no idea who they'd put in the lineup out of three so I'll go with Dzingel because I like him best.....Puempel getting the first shot in Mac's spot on the Brassard line wouldn't surprise me though. Dzingel and Varone both seem like speedy playmakers and somewhat similar players, where as Puempel isn't a guy who can create on his own and isn't as flashy but is more of a goal scorer who is better in front of the net/on battles/finding the right place to finish and be set up by Brassard for a goal. We saw that in small doses in the pre-season.

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

Evander Kane - Ryan O'Reilly - Kyle Okposo
Tyler Ennis - Jack Eichel - Sam Reinhart
Matt Moulson - Zemgus Girgensons - Brian Gionta
Marcus Foligno - Johan Larsson - Derek Grant

Dmitry Kulikov - Rasmus Ristolainen
Jake McCabe - Zach Bogosian
Josh Gorges - Casey Nelson

Robin Lehner
Anders Nilsson

 

[shadow1]

Probably a million years off aside from the first line;

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Duchene
Colborne - Grigorenko - Iginla
R. Bourque - Soderberg - Comeau
McLeod - Mitchell - G. Bourque
(Rantanen injured)

Zadorov - Johnson
Beauchemin - Barrie
Bigras - Gelinas

Varlamov
Pickard

 

[Chez Weber]

Really impressed by the Flames, Jets and even the Oilers lineup.
The North Strikes back

Probably a million years off aside from the first line;

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Duchene
Colborne - Grigorenko - Iginla
R. Bourque - Soderberg - Comeau
McLeod - Mitchell - G. Bourque
(Rantanen injured)

Zadorov - Johnson
Beauchemin - Barrie
Bigras - Gelinas

Varlamov
Pickard

Is he really ready for 1st pair duties?

 

[shadow1]

Really impressed by the Flames, Jets and even the Oilers lineup.
The North Strikes back



Is he really ready for 1st pair duties?

He's looked good there in preseason and Colorado is light on other options so...

 

[frederixx]

Panarin-Toews-Panik
Fortin-Anisimov-Kane
Desjardins-Schmaltz-Tootoo
Motte-Kruger-Hossa
Rasmussen

Keith-Seabrook
Campbell-van Riemsdyk
Forsling-Rozsival
Kempny, Hjalmarsson (susp.)

Crawford
Darling

What? Are you serious, Hossa on the 4th line?