Hopefully Pettersson keeps working himself up to form, because there is literally no way in hell we are competetive without him. We have zero other candidates to are even close to being a serious 1c in a tournament like this. Zibanejad and Lindholm are overrated, William Karlsson should absolutely play top3 C. To me it seems suboptimal to play Forsberg and Nylander on the same line, we don't have enough offensive upside to just mindlessly put lines together. Would make more sense to me to play Raymond on a line with either of them. Bratt and Kempe always seems to outperform my perception of them, both will be very important.
Has anyone stayed up for Leo Carlssons games this year?
Very split on Erik Karlsson. One one hand, we need potential offensive upside, and I don't think he is as bad overall as some like to make him to be, he's just polarizing as always. On the other, it seems like a recipe for disaster to put him against the stacked offences that we will play this event. Probably worth the gamble though.
A long way to go, but Filip Gustavsson seems to be making his case for the starting role right now.
