Obviously Aston-Reese, because the hockey gods **** on us now.
I want ZAR to produce. Sullys love for him means nothing to JR. When the old man is ready to make a trade, ZAR will be gone.
Luckily Rust is only out day to day. He and Schultz will be back first. We need JS back and to produce along with Letang to help out these lines. If Noesen can do what I think he can, then Id rather Rust sit 3 or 4 more games at least so Noes can put up 3g 3a in his first few games, forcing his role into our lineup.
Guentzel - Mallin - Simon
Galchenyuk - McCann - Noesen
Kahun - Blueger - Tanev
ZAR - Lafferty.
Thats how cap friendly has our depth chart. Waiting to see if Blandisi clears waivers at noon Im guessing. But Id rather see Adam Johnson on the 4th line With Lafferty and Angello. I mean ZAR. But seriously, Sully mentioned how these injuries no longer "help a team". Help with stepping up as a team, working on areas they've lacked due to talent. Knowing they cant get by on talent alone, etc..etc. But as we saw with the last 2 losses....it eventually just wears a team down. "Unless" you give diff players a chance
Lets see what Johnson - Lafferty - Angello can do for our 4th line. Could always put Agozzino in there if it seems Laff needs a few games off.
If we want to get past this next stretch of injuries, we need to find that spark again. The b2b 5-2 losses were obvious more mental fatigue than anything. Losing all 4 of those guys as soon as those games were played. Especially when Rust was having a career year and putting himself onto that next tier of players. Horny hurt in practice too.