Line Combos: CBJ Roster Discussion/Line Combos/Injury Report (CBJ claim Fabbro off waivers, KJ to IR)

VT

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I like our fourth line. Hope, Evason will not change it. If Johnson will return, Sillinger can play instead of Pyyhtiä.

Voronkov (24) - Monahan (30) - Marchenko (24)
Johnson (22) - Fantilli (20) - Chinakhov (23)
Sillinger (21) - Danforth (31) - Olivier (27)
Aston-Reaves (30) - Kuraly (31) - Labanc (29)

Werenski (27), Fabbro (26)
Provorov (27), Severson (30)
Christiansen (25), xxx

I do not count with Jenner (31) and Gudbranson (32).
 

CBJWerenski8

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ZAR and Labanc are playing as well together as any LW/RW combo on the team. Labanc's issue has always been work ethic, but he's always skating and moving his feet and ZAR is always in the right place. They played with or against each other since grade school, I guess it's no surprise they have chemistry
Agreed. Until KJ comes back this is the lineup I’d run with until further notice.

JVR is maybe our best net front guy on the team, but other than that he doesn’t bring much else to the table. I wouldn’t be surprised if when KJ returns if we waive JVR (assuming Waddell is telling the truth about Jiricek having nothing to learn at the AHL level).
 

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Agreed. Until KJ comes back this is the lineup I’d run with until further notice.

JVR is maybe our best net front guy on the team, but other than that he doesn’t bring much else to the table. I wouldn’t be surprised if when KJ returns if we waive JVR (assuming Waddell is telling the truth about Jiricek having nothing to learn at the AHL level).
We can return Pyyhtiä to Cleveland. He is not a NHL player. Also have enough players for PK, Kuraly, Chinakhov, Johnson, Voronkov might play in PK too.
 
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Really hope we can get KJ back soon and stick him with Fantilli. We still haven’t gotten to see a true playmaker with him yet. I think he probably needs that at this point in his career.
 
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Good repost. Clearly there’s reason for optimism and over time you’d think we’ll be able to balance this out by burying more of these chances. I do think our lack of prolific scorers means our conversion rate might be lower than expected but we do have some bottom 6 guys that might help modestly offset that to a degree.
 

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Good repost. Clearly there’s reason for optimism and over time you’d think we’ll be able to balance this out by burying more of these chances. I do think our lack of prolific scorers means our conversion rate might be lower than expected but we do have some bottom 6 guys that might help modestly offset that to a degree.
But if our top guys buried more they would be prolific. :dunno:
 

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Maybe it's just me looking for an Easy Villain via confirmation bias rather than reasonable analysis, but all the same I'm kind of officially done with the Provorov-Severson pairing. I badly want to send Provorov off to another team and pick up a stay-at-home shutdown guy in his place.
 

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