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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Exactly, this isn't that hard.
You have 3 pairs of players that work well together, and one trio of players that looks amazing together whenever played together.
Keep those groups together!
Then you just fill in the three empty spots with filler from the Leivo, Simon, Nordstrom, Ryan (when healthy), Gawdin, Phillips, Robinson, etc group, and hope that the GM can make a move to bring in one legitimate RW at the trade deadline to fill one of the spots.
Issue we have is our coach seems to think that Nordstrom and Froese are so amazing that they can't come out of the lineup and need to stay in the lineup (Narrator Voice: They aren't that amazing)
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I certainly haven't looked around the whole league, but I just don't know if any teams are rolling four lines to that extent.
It looks good on paper, but if you get into a special teams game you end up with some pretty strange utilization.
I could be wrong though ...
Assuming I'm right, then you have to go back to the top nine again, and that's where it gets sticky.
Lindholm, Tkachuk, Monahan, Gaudreau, Backlund, Mangiapane all have to be there ... that's 6
Dube, Lucic and Bennett are my next three if you can find a way to get them onto the the three lines and I think that's the challenge.
Tkachuk - Lindholm - X
Gaudreau - Monahan - X
Lucic - Backlund - Mangiapane
I'm all for trying Bennett with Tkachuk and Lindholm, I didn't like Dube there.
Then you have a fourth line that hopefully can all kill penalties. Nordstrom is already doing it, can Simon?
And Leivo is the forgotten man in this case (he's been a healthy scratch any way).