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Originally Posted by drewtastic
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I’m just saying that he should be playing centre. They can slot the centres however.
If they play him as a centre with Kerins, for example, I’d consider it at WORST a second third line.
Maybe something like:
10 91 17
27 16 76
6 47 70
86 11 20
Two “third lines”..and they can move wingers around.
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I also want to see Zary back at centre. Conroy says he wants young players to play important minutes this season and down the stretch. I want to see that as well. I don’t like seeing Zary sit on the bench for most of the 3rd periods since he came back from injury. I’m hoping it’s just Huska trying to ease him back. Before his injury, Zary was given more and more opportunity and he was running with it as a centre. I’d like to see that resume. I would like to try forward lines based on these pairings of centre-winger:
Kadri-Huberdeau
Zary-Coronato
Backlund-Coleman
Frost-Posposil
Mix in the other players (Farabee, Sharangovich, Lomberg, Rooney and Klapka) in whichever way that seems to work. Farabee has looked good with Backlund and Coleman the last couple games but I’d be up for him with Zary/Coronato as well. Would like to also bring Klapka back up and put him with any of these pairings. I think he can be a really effective depth player if deployed with some skilled forwards. Would love him with Frost-Posposil. Start using Lomberg and Rooney as players that come in and out of the lineup rather than as regulars.
Huberdeau-Kadri-Sharangovich
Farabee-Zary-Coronato
Posposil-Frost-Klapka
Lomberg/Rooney-Backlund-Coleman
Sharangovich has struggled all year but he and Huberdeau did well together in the last half of last season. Zary and Coronato might spark some offence and can share the load on faceoffs. I’m sure there are weaknesses in these line setups but I think something needs to be tried to get some more scoring. It’s really tough to continue on with so few goals for. Let’s try something different to see if it’s a better mix for offence. These are line combinations that have not been tried yet and I think they have the potential to spark some more scoring - at least from players that I think have more scoring to give.