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Originally Posted by Bunk
Versteeg and Chiasson are definitely more suitable linemates than Brouwer and Bouma. They can skate with him, just a better fit. Brouwer looks ok with Stajan and Bouma - someone mentioned he slots in like David Jones did, which seemed to work well two years ago.
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Things is, until tonight the lines were Bouma-Bennett-Chiasson & Versteeg-Stajan-Brouwer, and there were big flaws with those line combos.
The problem with that BBC line is that it was too much crash & dash and not enough skill. Meanwhile the problem with that 'veteran's line' is that there wasn't enough grind, plus nobody on that line can really skate and generate any effective forecheck, so they were often chasing the game way too much to do anything meaningful.
Now that the lines are Versteeg-Bennett-Chiasson & Bouma-Stajan-Brouwer, there is now the right amount of skill for the 3rd line, and the right amount of dash & grind for the 4th line.