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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
If Zary is back, I'd like to see our C depth chart look like:
Kadri
Frost
Zary
Backlund
Don't put any of them on the wing. Have 4 lines with good players centering them. This team succeeds when they outwork the opposition, and they'll have more energy to do that if the 4th line isn't a liability.
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This. Most important thing to do is keep Zary playing centre. Before he went down, Zary was the best on the team at carrying the puck across the offensive blue line and generating a scoring chance shortly after. Good for the team and for his development to keep him at centre. Put him with Coronato to give them both a chance to build chemistry. They can also share the load with faceoffs.
I also like that the 4th line (which has not been good this year) gets replaced with the 3rd line (which has been good but has struggled to score).
Huberdeau-Kadri-Posposil
Farabee-Frost-Sharangovich
Klapka-Zary-Coronato
Lomberg/Hunt-Backlund-Coleman
Don’t really need to shorten the bench in the 3rd period with this setup. Don’t have to worry about the “4th line” getting caught out there against the top line as that is Backlund-Coleman’s specialty.