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per multiple tweets from beat reporters: dahlin was given a maintenance day today after he got nicked up by the shot he blocked late in the 3rd period last night. he is expected to play against the islanders.

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57 minutes ago, PickaPecaPickles said:

I really like these forward lines. I'm wondering what they do when Norris is back?  I'm assuming you have to send Helenius back?

Or drop down to 2 goalies.

1 minute ago, ... said:

Greenway filling in for D? What happened to their defense?

Bryson got injured yesterday and Dahlin had a maintenance day. 

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1 minute ago, Mustache of God said:

Or drop down to 2 goalies.

Bryson got injured yesterday and Dahlin had a maintenance day. 

I know about those, but I thought there were more available, even if through a call-up.

That must mean Dahlin will definitely be back, which is good, but still...

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The Benson/Östlund/Helenius is the most interesting and fun line to watch. Benson is Benson, and everyone is aware of his game. But what has impressed me about Östlund and Helenius is that for young players they play as if they are mature players. The more I watch these two the less willing I am to deal either one of them. Obviously, you have to give up talent to get talent. However, I'm leaning toward keeping our own young talent that you know that will get better. 

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7 minutes ago, ... said:

I know about those, but I thought there were more available, even if through a call-up.

That must mean Dahlin will definitely be back, which is good, but still...

Right now, they're at the 23 man limit with 1 spare G, 1 spare D, and 1 spare F.  With 2 D not practicing, that puts the spare F into the 6th D slot.

They're on the road.  They aren't going to call somebody up just to practice with the team 1 day.  And even if they wanted to do that, they'd either need to put one more person on IR or send somebody to Ra-cha-cha at least long enough to play 1 game for the Amerks.  Way easier to juat have the spare F rotate through.

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6 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Right now, they're at the 23 man limit with 1 spare G, 1 spare D, and 1 spare F.  With 2 D not practicing, that puts the spare F into the 6th D slot.

They're on the road.  They aren't going to call somebody up just to practice with the team 1 day.  And even if they wanted to do that, they'd either need to put one more person on IR or send somebody to Ra-cha-cha at least long enough to play 1 game for the Amerks.  Way easier to juat have the spare F rotate through.

They should be calling up a Bryson replacement and adding him to IR.

In addition to Dahlin, Kesselring is still nursing something.

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8 minutes ago, JohnC said:

The Benson/Östlund/Helenius is the most interesting and fun line to watch. Benson is Benson, and everyone is aware of his game. But what has impressed me about Östlund and Helenius is that for young players that play as if they are mature players. The more I watch these two the less willing I am to deal either one of them. Obviously, you have to give up talent to get talent. However, I'm leaning toward keeping our own young talent that you know that will get better. 

This is the line that makes a difference but you have to wonder if this "kid line" will hold up. If they revert to being "kids" at any time the whole house of cards might crash down. Ride it as long as you can though. Maybe it never crashes. Maybe we are finally lucky with numerous things coming together at once. Hopefully they won't fall apart like Peterka-Cozens-Quinn did the last time we had a "kid line". 

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3 minutes ago, dudacek said:

They should be calling up a Bryson replacement and adding him to IR.

In addition to Dahlin, Kesselring is still nursing something.

And they will call up the replacement.  That player was never going to be there in time for a practice today.

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Just now, PerreaultForever said:

This is the line that makes a difference but you have to wonder if this "kid line" will hold up. If they revert to being "kids" at any time the whole house of cards might crash down. Ride it as long as you can though. Maybe it never crashes. Maybe we are finally lucky with numerous things coming together at once. Hopefully they won't fall apart like Peterka-Cozens-Quinn did the last time we had a "kid line". 

The kid line is playing well right now. Will it slide after getting a lot of heavy duty work? Probably so. But when you watch them, it is obvious that all three players have talent and will get better. One aspect about that line that I like a lot is they are more willing to shoot the puck. That is something the other lines should do more of. 

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3 minutes ago, dudacek said:

They should be calling up a Bryson replacement and adding him to IR.

In addition to Dahlin, Kesselring is still nursing something.

Maybe they will tomorrow.  But it doesn't make sense to take somebody out of the Amerks lineup to travel and miss the practice anyway.  

After the game in Uitca tonight, they could have somebody head to the Island tonight or in the AM.

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55 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

This is the line that makes a difference but you have to wonder if this "kid line" will hold up. If they revert to being "kids" at any time the whole house of cards might crash down. Ride it as long as you can though. Maybe it never crashes. Maybe we are finally lucky with numerous things coming together at once. Hopefully they won't fall apart like Peterka-Cozens-Quinn did the last time we had a "kid line". 

I'll be really curious to see what happens when Norris is ready to slot back into the line-up. If the kid line is still jamming you can't break that up, and if you can't break that up, where does Norris slot it? Does he replace McLeod as the 2C and have Mcleod center the 4th line? I also wouldn't mind seeing him playing next to Tage on the 1st line but I'm not sure how lines 2 and 4 would then shake out. I suppose these are good problems to have. 

Doan-Thompson-Tuch
Zucker- Norris -Quinn
Benson-Östlund-Helenius
Krebs- McLeod - Malenstyn

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1 hour ago, JohnC said:

The Benson/Östlund/Helenius is the most interesting and fun line to watch. Benson is Benson, and everyone is aware of his game. But what has impressed me about Östlund and Helenius is that for young players they play as if they are mature players. The more I watch these two the less willing I am to deal either one of them. Obviously, you have to give up talent to get talent. However, I'm leaning toward keeping our own young talent that you know that will get better. 

I loved the glee with which Östlund was getting into scrums. Just a bit of push back and big grin on his face. Awesome. 

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56 minutes ago, steveoath said:

I loved the glee with which Östlund was getting into scrums. Just a bit of push back and big grin on his face. Awesome. 

He and his young line mates are not intimidated playing at this higher level. They are  producing while also having 🤩 fun. And to our benefit are fun to watch.

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4 minutes ago, JohnC said:

He and his young line mates are not intimidated playing at this higher level. They are  producing while also having 🤩 fun. And to our benefit are fun to watch.

Ultimately hope to see a line of Rosen - Östlund - Helenius

Scandinavian kid line, could be electric.   
 

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1 minute ago, pi2000 said:

Ultimately hope to see a line of Rosen - Östlund - Helenius

Scandinavian kid line, could be electric.   
 

I don’t watch AHL games so I haven’t followed Rosen closely. I did recently read that his recent play is really good.

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1 hour ago, Mustache of God said:

I'll be really curious to see what happens when Norris is ready to slot back into the line-up. If the kid line is still jamming you can't break that up, and if you can't break that up, where does Norris slot it? Does he replace McLeod as the 2C and have Mcleod center the 4th line? I also wouldn't mind seeing him playing next to Tage on the 1st line but I'm not sure how lines 2 and 4 would then shake out. I suppose these are good problems to have. 

Doan-Thompson-Tuch
Zucker- Norris -Quinn
Benson-Östlund-Helenius
Krebs- McLeod - Malenstyn

Malenstyn is a mystery to me. He shows flashes of brilliance rushing in to the offensive zone. 

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