Great point here on the 1st line. Other teams are zeroing in on AM cause they know the other two guys aren't much of a threat to score from the outside. Give AM Willie and Robertson and you gotta pick your poison.
When you watch game at Scotia you see much different game then what you see on TV (vastly different) .. as another poster noted in game thread who only went to last nights game but watched rest on TV .. da major issue right now is Matty and JT are so so slow and not keeping up to da play .. yes both have their skills when they finally get into offensive end .. until Matty drops his 10 pounds he came into camp overweight his line will have trouble .. Mitch is playing like Mitch always plays it does not matter a preseason game a regular season game or a playoff game he plays exactly da same way every time he touches ice surface .. he is way ahead of Matty and often playing by himself in offensive end .. Matty will work off his issue with more games under his belt and then will be back to a dominating force I am sure of it
I was coming in to post this exact lineup. I like Nicky Bobby with JT and Willie, thought they looked good together against Dallas. Malgin on that line looked like a complete passenger, always deferring to the two stars (kind of looked like Abruzzese last year) and looked nothing like he did in preseason or at the WC. Maybe putting him on a line where he doesn’t have to defer would let him be more assertive and attempt to be dynamic again. Engvall on the 4th line would make that line better, especially with his chemistry with Kampf (and NAK has shown nothing deserving of a lineup spot).
Why give them 3 or 4 more games when they have had 100 games together?
I suspect it's self-defense. If you took your GM's prize $11M acquisition and played him on the third line, how long would you expect to keep your job?
Agreed would love to see a solid 5-10 game stretch w
Replace Clifford with maybe a Steeves and you might be on to something though I would keep Robertson with nylander
Kerfoot should not be in any championship winners top six he belongs on the third line preferably on the left wing that’s it especially when we have players that should be in that spot over him id rather malgin over him
I thought Robertson and Nylander worked very well together, especially the couple of shifts without JT.
I doubt they will ever have Tavares as the third line center this season besides he’s played good you don’t want to stretch your top nine you want to solidify your top six find the right mixture and they can’t stop us our bottom six is to chip in here and there but not to give up much so both nylander and Tavares have to be in your top six
Tavares has "played good" on the PP, but not so much at even strength. But I agree Keefe isn't likely to play him on the third line.
Exactly but take the babs approach and split matthews and marner up it allows for our best two defensive top six forwards to spread out and maybe have both lines going as opposed to one keep marner with bunting
