Or we can put the shooters (Coro and Rango) with Frosty, the two-way guys (Coleman and Farabee) with Zary, and bump Backs to the fourth line with Lombo and Klapper. That one game with “12 minutes for the Backlund line” and “8+ minutes for the Frost line” wasn’t exactly against one of the league’s best teams. How well do you expect they’d fare against the Caps? We don’t have weeks to spare, we have 26 games, less than 1/3rd of the season left.
This move Backlund to the 4th line is such a ridiculous f***ing take, it's nearly as awful as your Poirier obsession. Backlund is still a solid 3rd liner, he's not going to be moved to the 4th line. Full stop.
Also some of your other suggestions are terrible. You want to move Coronato off the top line with out best playmaker and best center... just because Frost is also a playmaker? That literally makes no sense. Even less so since the only guys left to play with Naz and Huby are 4th liners.
You're also ignoring the 2 weeks off, long layoffs throw things off.
Look at some of the results since the break...
- Oilers were pummeled by Philly
- Buffalo scored 8 goals on the Rangers
- Panthers lost to the Kraken
- Avs have lost to the Preds and Blues
- The "good" Red Wings needed OT to be the Ducks
- Canucks lost to Utah
- The Jets needed OT to beat the Sharks, despite the Sharks playing B2Bs
I guess the Oilers, Panthers, Avs, Wings and Jets should just give up because if that's how they did in those games, they have no chance to beat other teams!
Looking at 1 game is too small of a sample size to take anything seriously from it, it's not a sign of trends. Earlier this year we were hammered by Utah, the next game we shutout NJ. We lost to Buffalo, next game we beat LA, we lost to the Lightning and Bruins on either side of beating the Panthers, we lost to Utah, Nashville and needed OT to beat Anaheim and then we turned around and beat the Kings... we lost 2 in a row to the Blues, then beat the Jets.
