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Poehling is starting in Montreal playing center.
On the 5th line? Where would you see him start the year at C in Montreal?
Poehling is starting in Montreal playing center.
On the 5th line? Where would you see him start the year at C in Montreal?
woah! what a shitty line-up that is... Kotka on the 3rd ? Poe on the 4th ?Drouin-Domi-Byron
Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Lehkonen-Kotkaniemi-Armia
Poehling-Weal-Cousins
Extra: Thompson and Peca or Hudon
Mete-Weber
Chiarot-Petry
Kulak-Folin
Reilly
Price
Kinkaid
woah! what a ****ty line-up that is... Kotka on the 3rd ? Poe on the 4th ?
There's a clear issue everyone seems to have noticed.
Poehling, Domi, Kotkaniemi, Danault should all really be in the top 6. That means two of them will not be a top 6 center this year.
Poehling as 3c is fine I guess, but I don't want him down on the 4th for the whole year.
Domi - Kotkaniemi - Suzuki
..will be a fun line in the future, maybe this year?
Domi - Kotkaniemi - Gallagher
Tatar - Danault - Armia
Lehkonen - Poehling - Byron
Hudon - Weal - Cousins
That's my wish, but we'll see at camp.
where's Drouin?
Traded for scraps so we can actually win some games.
I don't think it's a bad thing to have Poehling/Kotka on the 3rd/4th line in today's game. The bottom 2 lines aren't supposed to be goons anymore they're supposed to score and produce, while getting a little less icetime
..playing a 4th line isn't like a 1995 curse where you had to play with 2 people who didn't know how to skate
If he has a bad stratch, it's going to get ugly at the Bell center. The boo birds were already starting to come out at yhe end of last year.
I think most are assuming Poeling is on the team but in the event that he doesn't impress, or they just want to be patient and keep him in Laval, I think there's a spot open in the top 9. I think Justin Williams could be an interesting add.
He's a 20 goal scorer, vet presence, good shooter and good with deflections. Could be helpful on the PP, even on the 2nd unit. 1 year deal at around $5M.
Tatar - Danault - Gallagher
Drouin - Domi - Lehkonen
Byron - Kotkaniemi - Williams
Cousins - Weal - Armia
Gives KK a better finisher and pushes Armia down to the 4th line. I could see Lehkonen and Byron flipping spots.
I think most are assuming Poeling is on the team but in the event that he doesn't impress, or they just want to be patient and keep him in Laval, I think there's a spot open in the top 9. I think Justin Williams could be an interesting add.
He's a 20 goal scorer, vet presence, good shooter and good with deflections. Could be helpful on the PP, even on the 2nd unit. 1 year deal at around $5M.
Tatar - Danault - Gallagher
Drouin - Domi - Lehkonen
Byron - Kotkaniemi - Williams
Cousins - Weal - Armia
Gives KK a better finisher and pushes Armia down to the 4th line. I could see Lehkonen and Byron flipping spots.
There's a clear issue everyone seems to have noticed.
Poehling, Domi, Kotkaniemi, Danault should all really be in the top 6. That means two of them will not be a top 6 center this year.
Poehling as 3c is fine I guess, but I don't want him down on the 4th for the whole year.
Domi - Kotkaniemi - Suzuki
..will be a fun line in the future, maybe this year?
Domi - Kotkaniemi - Gallagher
Tatar - Danault - Armia
Lehkonen - Poehling - Byron
Hudon - Weal - Cousins
That's my wish, but we'll see at camp.
We have 3 top 6 players.
Domi, Drouin and Gallagher.
We have 3 young players that we want to develop further.
Kotka, Poehling, Lekhonen
We have 4 veterans, with specific roles.
Tatar, Danault, Armia, Byron
We have 1 rookie knocking on the door
Suzuki
We have a few extras
Weal, Thompson, Cousins, Hudon
At first glance we have this:
Tatar - Domi - Gallagher (Don't think Tartar-Domi can be split)
Drouin - Kotkaniemi - Armia (KK needs to play with top 6 talent)
Poehling - Danault - Lekhonen (Poehling needs to learn his long-term role, Lekhonen to score)
Thompson - Weal - Byron
Cousins, Hudon
What I would be tempted to do:
Tatar - Domi - Suzuki <== yes aggressive to play Suzuki there, but, it would bring all kinds of balance to the lineup that we can't ignore.
Drouin - Kotkaniemi - Gallagher <== much better 2nd line and situation for KK.
Poehling - Danault - Lekhonen <=== less pressure on this line.
Armia - Weal - Byron <=== very good 4th line.
I think most are assuming Poeling is on the team but in the event that he doesn't impress, or they just want to be patient and keep him in Laval, I think there's a spot open in the top 9. I think Justin Williams could be an interesting add.
He's a 20 goal scorer, vet presence, good shooter and good with deflections. Could be helpful on the PP, even on the 2nd unit. 1 year deal at around $5M.
Tatar - Danault - Gallagher
Drouin - Domi - Lehkonen
Byron - Kotkaniemi - Williams
Cousins - Weal - Armia
Gives KK a better finisher and pushes Armia down to the 4th line. I could see Lehkonen and Byron flipping spots.
In all fairness, it's probably exactly the way clode will do it. They will claim a rebuild/reset and that they are going with youth but I don't buy it for one second.woah! what a ****ty line-up that is... Kotka on the 3rd ? Poe on the 4th ?
We have 3 top 6 players.
Domi, Drouin and Gallagher.
We have 3 young players that we want to develop further.
Kotka, Poehling, Lekhonen
We have 4 veterans, with specific roles.
Tatar, Danault, Armia, Byron
We have 1 rookie knocking on the door
Suzuki
We have a few extras
Weal, Thompson, Cousins, Hudon
At first glance we have this:
Tatar - Domi - Gallagher (Don't think Tartar-Domi can be split)
Drouin - Kotkaniemi - Armia (KK needs to play with top 6 talent)
Poehling - Danault - Lekhonen (Poehling needs to learn his long-term role, Lekhonen to score)
Thompson - Weal - Byron
Cousins, Hudon
What I would be tempted to do:
Tatar - Domi - Suzuki <== yes aggressive to play Suzuki there, but, it would bring all kinds of balance to the lineup that we can't ignore.
Drouin - Kotkaniemi - Gallagher <== much better 2nd line and situation for KK.
Poehling - Danault - Lekhonen <=== less pressure on this line.
Armia - Weal - Byron <=== very good 4th line.
not really, they just need to be better than the 8th and 9th forward for that...Tatar is top 6.
Danault is too
(fyi he had as many or more points than Jamie Benn, Brock Nelson, Gallagher, Drouin, Kreider, Staal, Anders Lee, Laine, Palmeiri, tyler Johnson, etc...)
If Poehling and Suzuki are ready for top 9 spots, we'll be damn good - especially if Drouin can get it together.
Drouin top 6 player. That's a good one.