At some point I think Keefe will have Matthews as the #1 Centre, Tavares as the #2 Centre, and O'Reilly as the #3 Centre. It's just a question of when that happens.
Before the Leafs qualifying series against the Blue Jackets during their practices Keefe had a line of Matthews-Tavares-Marner. However, I can't remember if he actually used them during any of those games? Maybe something like that could be done during a game to shake up the team if it's needed.
Trust me, it will take Keefe a while for it to click that this a terrible idea. He’s going to force it for another week or two before he changes it.
Trust you? lol
Tavares and Robertson only played 95 minutes together this year, and they did fairly well.
While I'm not necessarily fixated on the idea of any trio in particular, I'd probably still like to see ROR remain/or be in that top six for the playoffs. I wouldn't like to enter into a potential rematch against Tampa offering up the same look as last time (Jarnkrok in place of ROR could also satisfy in that regard and yet I'll remain hopeful that ROR can be an upgrade over him).
It's all true, and easily verifiable. Quite frankly, if anything, Keefe didn't keep that line together enough.
What source are you using? I wouldn’t trust statmuse.
