Phil Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 4 hours ago, G1000 said: Hard problem, because your new guys have fit like a glove, but it's still too top heavy., Drury brought in Copp, Vatrano, and Motte to give the bottom six a good deal more "pain in the ass" to play against. What's ended up happening is that Copp's slotted in where Kakko should be, Vatrano's slotted in where Laf was (which, fine, he was out of position), Motte's hurt, unfortunately. I think you mix it up a bit around your core duos and see if you can get more consistency (or just win more matchups) out of something like this: Kreider-Zib-Vatrano Bread-Strome-Kakko Laf-Chytil-Copp Hunt-Rooney-Goodrow Agreed. It's like @josh has been on about — spread the wealth/size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangersIn7 Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Advantageously, he has games left, in particular some games vs “lesser” opponents. So he has an opportunity to try different combinations somewhat and see what he’s got and what might actually work or is at least maybe an option that he’s ok with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindG1000 Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, Phil said: Agreed. It's like @josh has been on about — spread the wealth/size. I'm thinking more along the lines of some of our matchups and leveraging the absurd luxury of having pretty high end talent all over the lineup. Andrew Copp, for example, is no more or less effective away from Panarin. He's been amazing with him, no doubt, but he has that swiss-army-knife versatility that lets him play wherever we need him. He can add serious value if we get to create a mismatch by having him center Kakko and Laf, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long live the King Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Its been 12 games since the TDL. The top 6 has been unchanged outside of Strome's injury. Now with 7 games left we think Gallant is gonna start experimenting? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangersIn7 Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 31 minutes ago, Long live the King said: Its been 12 games since the TDL. The top 6 has been unchanged outside of Strome's injury. Now with 7 games left we think Gallant is gonna start experimenting? Think? No. Should? Yes. But even if he leaves the top-6 alone, he’s still got 7 forwards for 6 spots and no provenly effective deployment. So yeah… I hope he fucking does. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long live the King Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 As we sit here with 48 wins, 2nd in the division, and 4th in the league I hope he keeps doing what he's been doing all year and makes few if any changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 I mean, we saw what a good playoff team will do to this team. yeah, they should always be looking to improve the team. again, moving Panarin’s off winger won’t affect that line, but it could provide a huge boost to a different line. no ones saying to put Fox with Braun and dress Georgiev at C 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Long live the King said: As we sit here with 48 wins, 2nd in the division, and 4th in the league I hope he keeps doing what he's been doing all year and makes few if any changes. I hope be keeps playing Shesterkin. Otherwise, there's room for improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 38 minutes ago, Pete said: I hope be keeps playing Shesterkin. Otherwise, there's room for improvement. Idk Pete….. (took me awhile but I finally got it) https://www.nhl.com/stats/goalies?reportType=game&dateFrom=2022-03-28&dateTo=2022-04-14&gameType=2&playerPlayedFor=franchise.10&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=wins,savePct&page=0&pageSize=50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 9 minutes ago, josh said: Idk Pete….. (took me awhile but I finally got it) https://www.nhl.com/stats/goalies?reportType=game&dateFrom=2022-03-28&dateTo=2022-04-14&gameType=2&playerPlayedFor=franchise.10&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=wins,savePct&page=0&pageSize=50 I mean, I've said a couple of times that Geo is a capable goalie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooksBurner Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 3 hours ago, josh said: I mean, we saw what a good playoff team will do to this team. yeah, they should always be looking to improve the team. again, moving Panarin’s off winger won’t affect that line, but it could provide a huge boost to a different line. no ones saying to put Fox with Braun and dress Georgiev at C I mean Copp is better than a PPG pace on Panarin’s line. Previously it had Hunt at like a 20 point pace. Even if you go Kakko, he’s what, a 30 point pace player? That indicates moving Copp off has a pretty damaging effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooksBurner Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 On 4/13/2022 at 3:37 PM, rmc51 said: As much as I would like to slot in Kravtsov, have to assume that's not happening. What I would like to see for the forward group at the moment, upon Chytil's return: Kreider - Zibanejad - Vatrano Panarin - Strome - Copp Goodrow - Chytil - Kakko Lafreniere - Rooney - Hunt/Reaves Looks familiar! With Kakko hurt, looks like it will be Laf-Chytil-Goodrow again though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooksBurner Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) Gallant basically saying he views the bottom 6 as two 3rd lines (no 4th line) at 18 seconds: Edited April 17, 2022 by rmc51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 10 hours ago, rmc51 said: Gallant basically saying he views the bottom 6 as two 3rd lines (no 4th line) at 18 seconds: Actually what he's saying is there's 2 4th lines. "When you add up the goals, they're really close"... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted April 17, 2022 Author Share Posted April 17, 2022 From what I've seen in the last few games (as preparation for playoff hockey) Laf and Kakko are going to be be buried on the third and fourth lines. Gallant is going to ride the veterans, and I'm guessing neither Laf nor Kakko will sniff the ice in the last five minutes of a playoff game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooksBurner Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Pete said: Actually what he's saying is there's 2 4th lines. "When you add up the goals, they're really close"... Lol touche 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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