Practice Notes - Jan 5

[Flaming Horse]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Frankly Lucic is as good a fit to play with Kadri as anybody IMO.

[Jiri Hrdina]

What's the complaint about Lewis? He's damn good in his role.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Bingo

I don't think it's that simple.

I think he looks at it as a formula

2nd Line without Lucic - 2nd Line with Lucic vs 4th line with Lucic - 4th line without Lucic

He seems to sink the 2nd line less than the combinations we've seen of the fourth line that becomes a complete black hole.

Overall that means less time in their own zone, and better metrics in games for the last 8 contests.

So he sinks the second line so it's better to keep him there because it's not as bad him destroying the 4th line.

So let's just keep trotting out a crappy player because why? How about the 3rd option he sits in the press box and sinks no lines.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Bingo

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...flames-are-at/

Clicked on that, found this link (https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/nhl-pow...dline-looming/), and saw this....

19. Edmonton Oilers (20-17-2) Will Jesse Puljujarvi’s time with the Oilers finally end in the next couple months? Can Edmonton land a steadying influence on the blue line?

You mean, other than the defenceman they're paying 9.5M to?

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

What's the complaint about Lewis? He's damn good in his role.

Fantastic. And great in the playoffs last year too.