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Originally Posted by Wolven
I keep seeing people posting a rerun of the Bahl-Andersson pairing. With all of the complaints about how his season was last year, and the desire to boost his numbers for a trade, I do not know why we would plan to do the same thing we did last season.
I think you need to start out with Bahl-Weegar and have them covering the toughest D assignments.
Besides, after the Andersson trade we are going to need Bahl-Weegar to cover those assignments anyway, so we may as well start them together.
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For the final 15 games of last season the Bahl-Andersson pairing really started to gel.
As a pair they went:
Corsi For: 52.56%
xGF For: 52.33%
Average 5v5 TOI: 16:34
And they had incredibly bad luck at 5v5:
Bahl - Andersson on ice:
Shooting %: 3.23
Save %: 85.09
PDO: 0.883
Bahl - Andersson off ice:
Shooting %: 9.56
Save %: 92.35
PDO: 1.019
I think it is worthwhile to try them again assuming Andersson is still on the team. I'd run two groups and spot in Parekh until he gets comfortable or Andersson is moved:
Hanley - Weegar
Bahl - Andersson
Bean - Pachal
Weegar - Parekh
Bahl - Andersson
Hanley - Pachal
The forwards are a bit of a mess. I agree that Lomberg should be in the press box from a talent perspective, but with Andersson's trade status in the air I would understand if the coaches want him in there keeping the vibes light.