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I think my worst nightmare is that the team starts 10-4 and Pegula hands Adams and company 3 year extensions and then everything regresses to the norm.🤢

I think, to me at least, it's clear this is a "we'll see" year. They're gonna run all this crap back and if it works cool, if not they'll can everyone and start over under Kekalainen.

Gonna be hard to lean on a guy who spends 40% of the season injured

Lindy made it absolutely crystal-clear that Norris is going to be leaned on as a 1C. Also called him the missing piece to a PP where they plan to put a 5-man unit together, keep it together and lean on it hard

Huh. How are they going to do the rotation, then? Tuch or Thompson has to give up an A for Samuelsson to have his A in home games? That's as silly as it was last year.

Status quo nonsense. This team refuses to face the facts and just wants to add 3 guys and run it back.

Is this another 'Terry is cheap' move? Saving themselves from having to pay a seamstress to remove the stitching holding Samuelsson's A on his sweater. (Realize it isn't, but it might as well be.)

That, and teams had figured out pretty quickly to clog things up, take away Tua's first read, and he's screwed.

Everyone I know is already there, it's too late.

I am surprised that Samuelsson will keep his A

I like this but I have a different lineup I like too Benson - Thompson - Tuch Zucker - Norris - Quinn Greenway - McLeod - Doan Krebs - Kulich - Danforth (Malenstyn)

By Thanksgiving, absolutely. For opening night, I'm going by the tried-and-true Ruffism of keeping all newcomers together on the same line. Greenway-Zucker gives Kulich the experience to play a solid checking game.

Agreed. Just going by the label on the chart. I can see Detroit and Buffalo swapping positions this season, and again after next season, depending on how UFAs play out. They're both in 1C purgatory. (Yes, Larkin looks good on Team Canada and he plays with speed. But... he's not striking fear into any championship contender in the playoffs.)

Lindy gives me a glimmer of hope.

No it wasn't. It was a row ahead of her. If it were at her feet, the man that ended up with the ball would not have been able to get it.

Yea ... no Detroits window isn't opening

Jordan Greenway needed another surgery... that sounds great.

Flip Doan with Greenway. Benson - Norris - Thompson Quinn - McLeod - Tuch Zucker - Kulich - Doan Danforth - Krebs - Greenway

Hopefully its not the fanbase that gets annoyed.

You can click the pieces together in a lot of interesting ways. Thompson Norris Zucker would be a trustworthy first line to go with your second and allow them to run a sheltered Kulich Benson Quinn 3rd line like Vanek Roy.

Also, Danforth, Krebs and Doan is a fun 4th line that is going to annoy the ***** out of people.

This is currently where I'm at. Though, depending on how camp goes, I could move Greenway to LW4 with Krebs and put Danforth or Doan at RW3 with Kulich and Zucker. I like Greenway, and actually think there is an argument for him at LW2. Greenway/McLeod/Tuch could be an elite shutdown line with a unique combination of size (all 3), speed (McLeod/Tuch), toughness (Greenway/Tuch), and a little nastiness (Greenway), in a threesome who are all adept at defensive play.

This is what I’ve settled on too. I think a big reason why is that it puts each of the three young players we most desperately need to step up - Benson, Quinn and Kulich - in the situations where they are best able to do that.

And their little arrow shows that they were near where Detroit was the previous year. Just spinning. The best outcome of the season would seem to get back to the Detroit - window opening - this season. And the other outcome is they slide to where Nashville is.

It was right at her feet