Speculation: 2023-24-25 Sharks Roster Discussion

[BaileyMacTavish]

Why is Smirh on the 4th line? Are we intentionally stalling his development?

 

[timorous me]

We should have drafted Bitchkov anyway and intentionally ruined his career

The Larry David approach to rebuilding a team.

 

[coooldude]

Why is Smirh on the 4th line? Are we intentionally stalling his development?

He's getting the Zetterlund/Eklund "young guy who needs a kick in the ass" treatment. If he starts the game well, he'll probably get more ice up the lineup. If he doesn't, he'll probably get scratched for "development" when Kostin is ready.

 

[TheBeard]

Why is Smirh on the 4th line? Are we intentionally stalling his development?

Because he's largely been invisible save for the occasional nice cross-ice pass and bad turnover. I think the team has sort of given up on his development for now and are just letting him play hockey. A lot of times in our GDTs some will talk about Will having a dominant game and then i'll go to the opponent GDT and they'll be like, "I didn't even know he was playing!".

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Because he's largely been invisible save for the occasional nice cross-ice pass and bad turnover. I think the team has sort of given up on his development for now and are just letting him play hockey. A lot of times in our GDTs some will talk about Will having a dominant game and then i'll go to the opponent GDT and they'll be like, "I didn't even know he was playing!".

Oh that's... man... think we need Hagens?

 

[TheBeard]

Oh that's... man... think we need Hagens?

I do. I think he's our future 2C and playing Will alongside Celebrini on line one will be an incredible combo.

 

[Timo Time]

If Smith is demoted please tell me f***ing Barclay Goodrow is not on that 1st line

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

If Smith is demoted please tell me f***ing Barclay Goodrow is not on that 1st line

He's 3rd line with Wennberg and Kunin.
Top line is the Lund line.

Eklund-Granlund-Zetterlund
Kovalenko-Celebrini-Toffoli
Goodrow-Wennberg-Kunin
Grundstrom-Sturm-Smith
Dellandrea-Kostin

Walman-Ceci
Ferraro-Liljegren
Thrun-Rutta
Vlasic-Mukhamadulin

 

[Star Platinum]

He's 3rd line with Wennberg and Kunin.
Top line is the Lund line.

Eklund-Granlund-Zetterlund
Kovalenko-Celebrini-Toffoli
Goodrow-Wennberg-Kunin
Grundstrom-Sturm-Smith
Dellandrea-Kostin

Walman-Ceci
Ferraro-Liljegren
Thrun-Rutta
Vlasic-Mukhamadulin

I miss early season Granlund. I hope he gets back to that level soon.

 

[coooldude]

I miss early season Granlund. I hope he gets back to that level soon.

Hero hockey yesterday. Way too much trying to do it all himself. Sometimes it works when he's on, but definitely not last night. Fully agree with you.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

He's 3rd line with Wennberg and Kunin.
Top line is the Lund line.

Eklund-Granlund-Zetterlund
Kovalenko-Celebrini-Toffoli
Goodrow-Wennberg-Kunin
Grundstrom-Sturm-Smith
Dellandrea-Kostin

Walman-Ceci
Ferraro-Liljegren
Thrun-Rutta
Vlasic-Mukhamadulin

Love the top six. Hate that 3rd line and think the 4th will play better than the 3rd. If Smith responds well which he's done before, he'll do well with Grundstrom and Sturm who both have been alright rather than awful in their shifts like Goodrow and Kunin tend to be when they're elevated in the lineup. They may want to consider scratching Ceci soon because it's been a bit rough even with the assist last night. I'd rather Mukhamadullin work out the kinks than scratch him if we're going to keep him up here.

 

[weastern bias]

Granlund is clearly playing with an exacerbated head injury, he's had multiple cheap shots against go unpunished this season and each time he's looked like a different player out there, he was fighting the puck hard in the Colorado game

 

[LilLeeroy]

He's 3rd line with Wennberg and Kunin.
Top line is the Lund line.

Eklund-Granlund-Zetterlund
Kovalenko-Celebrini-Toffoli
Goodrow-Wennberg-Kunin
Grundstrom-Sturm-Smith
Dellandrea-Kostin

Walman-Ceci
Ferraro-Liljegren
Thrun-Rutta
Vlasic-Mukhamadulin

They keep going back to the Lund line despite the consistently terrible results. Of 219 lines combinations that have played at least 50 minutes together the Lund line is ranked 208 in xGoals%.