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Makes sense w/ Darnell out, what, 5-6 weeks. Should still be familiar w/ most of the playbook & a fair # of players.

While it seems inevitable that (barring a Cozens demotion) Peterka - Krebs - Quinn will become a line, it hasn't yet in a very small sample size except for a shift or 2. Would like to see that happen, though. But unless you are looking at least 2 years out & possibly 3, that will not be a good 2nd line in the NHL. If they are penciled in at that usage level for next season, they're getting set up for failure. My 2 cents.

Agree that this season is all about development. With that said, really don't know which is better for him at this point. Expect that having the team not having 2 lines that will definitely get pinned in their own zone which will end up creating momentum for the opponent that can't generally get reversed Cozens NOT being on one of those 2 lines but still having to deal w/ the momentum effects would be worse than the team having only 1 line that will definitely get blown up & Cozens being on another line that's 50/50 for getting blown up w/ 2 lines that won't would be better. The issue w/ having him at C w/ Z & Okposo at home is that Granato is going to be intentionally putting those 2 W's up against the other team's top line. You are still going to see Dylan getting overmatched in his own zone. Really feel strongly that young guys struggle more based upon the players they're up against rather than the linemates they get. On the road, it's a better fit because both coaches would be getting that line out against each other, so then the linemates have more of an effect. Admit that that could be overthinking it. Will trust Granato's decision more than either of ours on that one. But still believe the better place for him is at option 3 which is at RW right now. But w/ the lack of C's that's not an option. And honestly would rather see him at W a few games rather than being on the Amerks though that seems to be the prevailing sentiment of the board.

Krebs w/ nice job to draw a penalty killing the 6th Amerks penalty of the night. 4v4 coming up.

Pekar stopped on the breakaway.

Who got the 5th?

He was noticeable in the 1st. And not just because Stevens thought at least 3 different Amerks were JJ. 😉

Pekar 4-1.

You mean the one that went exactly to where Thompson was because it hit the goalie's skate on the way through his 5 hole? PS - Game was in Buffalo vs Detroit.

Presumably because they're leaving Cozens slot on that line open. 😉 Peterka w/ Jankowski & Weisbeck. ------------- Boo. Shot from behind the goal line went over & off UPL. 3-1.

MacInnis 3-0.

Laaksonen to Krebs to Quinn for the 2-0 lead on the PP.

Yup.

You might want to forward that to Don Stevens. 😉

Peterka w/ a trip. And now Stevens is calling Pekar Peterka on the kill. Don, if he's in the box, he isn't killing the penalty too.

Peterka just missed. Hit the near post. The Amerks were all over the Pens crease. Just couldn't finish. ‐-‐‐------------------------ Don Steven's is now referring to everybody as Peterka. Malone actually had the puck. He's gonna force people to actually watch to figure out who's doing what. [Edit: comments were actually a couple of minutes apart. Didn't mean to imply Malone was the guy that hit the pipe.]

Jankowski on the penalty shot. 1-0.

Thanks, it was Dylan, not Tage. Not worried about the road right now, the next 2 games are at home against teams w/ a lot of fire power. Would rather have 2 functioning lines & 1 near line than only 2 w/ 2 disasters. And on the road, now it becomes Eakin & Cozens former linemates getting blown up by the other team's top line if Cozens does center the A's. That isn't going to be better IMHO. But will cross that bridge next week.

The problem w/ putting Cozens Thompson between Girgensons & Okposo before Mittelstadt is back is, at best, they've got 2 functional lines (guess the same could be said at present) whereas the currently have arguably 3 functional lines. And if Cozens can't handle facing the other team's top line like Z & Kyle often do, you might be down to just the Thompson line functioning.

Agree on Jokiharju. The main things he has going for him are he's a RHD on a team with a distinctive lack of them AND when paired w/ Scandella he played very well. Might even have arguably been their best D at that time.

Which is the biggest piece of this informing that @The Ghost of Yuri might be onto something regarding his comfort level with & understanding of the center position. Thompson looked absolutely idiotic (at best) when playing W and he has been 1 of their best F's at C. (Limited sample size & 2 F's that are better are out w/ injuries, but still. Like the Labatt's bear: did NOT see that coming.)

You'd be wrong there. The confusion was about what @Eleven is doing on a Narnia message board. 😉 Narnia is nice and all. But not going to talk about it for hours on end. 😉

Great. 😒 Just when Disney gets control of the broadcast rights, they're ready to start writing the next trilogy. What could possibly go wrong w/ that? 😒

Whether the TV (internet) broadcast is profitable might be the wrong way to look at this. The radio broadcast almost definitely is & the announcers, producer & the audio technicians are already figured into the costs. The parent club & likely the Amerks coaches themselves want to have video of how the kids played & now that there's a fancy video board in rink, they're going to already have paid for at least some cameras & crew to cover the needs of those groups. So, what are the actual costs specifically related to the TV broadcast? Maybe a couple of extra cameras & the infrastructure / bodies to run them. That can't be too much & is partially offset by the subscribers to the AHL.tv package & by marginal increases in the value of the rink advertising. Plus, if the broadcasts are unprofitable per the accountants, they get to write off those losses and lower their tax bill.

Absolutely. But doubt any that are brought in are more than a Hagg or a Pysyk. Hope that's wrong. Would love to see a Teppo & Tallinder brought in.