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Dreakmur said:
He's been an excellent 4th liner for us, but that's all he is... and ideally he's not even playing centre there.
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I don't want him at C anywhere.

But at wing I'd love to see him get a chance at higher duty. Way better option up there than guys like Marleau and Thornton were at older ages imo.

It's not like we're asking a 36yr old to be our #1C like Boston is. Just giving Spezza a look at 2nd line W.
 
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zeke said:
I don't want him at C anywhere.

But at wing I'd love to see him get a chance at higher duty. Way better option up there than guys like Marleau and Thornton were at older ages imo.

It's not like we're asking a 36yr old to be our #1C like Boston is. Just giving Spezza a look at 2nd line W.
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I don't think he fits in the top-6. We need players who compliment the two elite duos, and Spezza doesn't do that. Bringing in Bunting and Ritchie is a sign that Dubas is starting to learn how to create effective units. They appear to be excellent fits to form lines that are more than the sum of their parts.

4th line and time on the PP seems like a pretty good use of Spezza.
 
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Dreakmur said:
I don't think he fits in the top-6. We need players who compliment the two elite duos, and Spezza doesn't do that. Bringing in Bunting and Ritchie is a sign that Dubas is starting to learn how to create effective units. They appear to be excellent fits to form lines that are more than the sum of their parts.

4th line and time on the PP seems like a pretty good use of Spezza.
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I think he can do a lot of the good Thornton did but with a bigger shot. He's still good on the boards and has reach, he's still got a good mind for causing the kinds of turnovers our top-6 feasts on.
 
Martin Skoula said:
I think he can do a lot of the good Thornton did but with a bigger shot. He's still good on the boards and has reach, he's still got a good mind for causing the kinds of turnovers our top-6 feasts on.
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He is smart. He is strong with the puck. I don't think that's what they need. If I'm building the lines, they need forecheckers, net crashers, and puck retrievers. Marner would really benefit from a bodyguard.
 
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Martin Skoula said:
I think he can do a lot of the good Thornton did but with a bigger shot. He's still good on the boards and has reach, he's still got a good mind for causing the kinds of turnovers our top-6 feasts on.
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A much better skater than Joe too.
 
Dreakmur said:
He is smart. He is strong with the puck. I don't think that's what they need. If I'm building the lines, they need forecheckers, net crashers, and puck retrievers. Marner would really benefit from a bodyguard.
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Matthews Tavares Willy are all great on the boards and in front of the net.
 
Dreakmur said:
Matthews and Tavares are both good battles, but do you really want them doing all the hard work?
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Isn't that what everyone wants to see from them in the playoffs? Isn't that what everyone glamorizes guys like Bergeron for?

I don't want them playing the Hyman role, but you don't need someone kamikaze pinning the puck for them when they're all high end pickpockets with strong board work.

I get running Ritchie with the Marner unit but that's in the hopes it helps fix whatever's wrong with Marner's head in the playoffs.
 
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zeke said:
I don't agree with the notion that 3 skill players is bad for a line.
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Fine for regular season up until about January/February. Then we get to watch them get worked as the big bodies and tight checking of the NHL takes over and the few players on our team that do play that way, are too banged up from overuse.

"Skill players"

What does that even mean anyway?

Euphemism for "I can't withstand contact and only receive it, and am only noticeable when I have the puck on my stick"

Leafs are certainly flush with those players. But that's just one "skill" of many in this league, and being so narrow-minded to that "skill" is why they constantly lose in the first round.

Sick danglez and snipes might win in video games, but not in the NHL.

Maybe one of these decades you'll pick up on that.
 
zeke said:
Looks like 2-3 per line to me.
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Looks like you have very low standards to me.

William Nylander is a soft perimeter player for 90% of the time. Every once in a while he’ll go out there and work hard, but you can’t rely on that.

Tavares is excellent in the corner, but he’s slow. Who’s first on the forecheck?

Matthews is a beast. He can dominate the corners, but how much time to we want the best shooter in hockey to spend in the corner? That’s the biggest reason to give him somebody to do the dirty work - not because he can’t do it, but because he’s most valuable doing something else.
 
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