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Its Always Sundstrom

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Can somebody give us a Photoshopped Nico with Matthews hairline?
Boom?
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devilsfan950003

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Who replaces Lazar's center position on the 4th line? Bowers? Could Stillman play center?

Do they play Nemec as the 7th defender?
 

JrFischer54

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how many more west coast teams do we get on the second end of a b2b after a visit against the rangers! 2-0 so far baby!
 

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I wouldn’t mind getting Mercer some center reps with Lazar out. He’s been showing some more offense recently but if the offense doesn’t end up coming back then he’ll need to be the 3C of the future to really be important.
 
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I wouldn’t mind getting Mercer some center reps with Lazar out. He’s been showing some more offense recently but if the offense doesn’t end up coming back then he’ll need to be the 3C of the future to really be important.

I don't mind that in testing him for a potential future role, but it would not be good for our current condition, especially if we have playoff aspirations. A long term Lazar injury would be very difficult to deal with.
 

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I wouldn’t mind getting Mercer some center reps with Lazar out. He’s been showing some more offense recently but if the offense doesn’t end up coming back then he’ll need to be the 3C of the future to really be important.
I’m fine with trying Mercer at center but it’s almost for the opposite of your reason.

I think Mercer has really struggled to be effective all season, and I don’t think it’s much better recently. He’s had Nico’s monster start next to him and he’s struggled to even get dragged along with it. He hasn’t been great at recovering pucks, skating with pucks, shooting, or dangling.

Dangling and finishing are 2 things I expect to be his strengths so the fact the he hasn’t been strong there yet shows he struggling, to me.

So I’d be fine trying him at center but it would be more to try and shake his game up. He’s always been bad at center so I’d expect it not to work but the future move back to wing may let his brain reset and get him back in a groove.
 

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I don't mind that in testing him for a potential future role, but it would not be good for our current condition, especially if we have playoff aspirations. A long term Lazar injury would be very difficult to deal with.

I mean we don’t have any other centers to play as is without adding a guy. People bring up Cotter but he’s literally never played center at the NHL level
 

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