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Time to Revisit Nylander at C?

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Do we have any player who can hit and possibly fight to insert into lineup other than Simmonds?
 
He can play C but i would try Kerfoot Hyman. You only get Hyman if your line play good. So no Hyman for you line 1!
 
francis246 said:
Lol if you wanna give up a lot of goals go for it. Nylander is a winger, he plays his best on the wing.
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Nylander lead team Sweden and was the top scorer in the 2019 world championships, beating guys like Kucherov and Stone. He had almost twice as many points as his second-highest scoring teammate. If I recall correctly, he was playing LW and C for that tournament and the leafs could certainly use that firepower in addition to the Marner-Matthews duo.

Foligno Matthews Marner
Nylander Kerfoot Galchenyuk
Hyman Engvall Mikheyev
Nash Spezza Simmonds

Muzzin Holl
Rielly Brodie
Sandin Bogosian
 
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Going back to this failed experiment in the playoffs seems like it would be a bad choice. I’d put kerfoot there and add Hyman for a bit of additional horsepower on that line, then slot engvall on the 3Rw spot
 
Should have had him play center some during the season... better to keep him on the wing unless the “next man (center) up’ fails.

give that 2nd line a boost with Hyman, put Foligno back on the 1st because you know that works.

Foligno - Matthews - Marner
Hyman - Kerfoot - Nylander
Mikheyev - Nash - Simmonds
Thornton - Brooks - Spezza

Nylander can split duties with Kerfoot; he can dip his toe in the water rather than dive in the deep end. Take the right side draws too.

chucky has a case for the 2nd line, Engvall for the bottom 6 too though.
 
A1LeafNation said:
Galchenyuk Matthews Marner
Foligno Nylander Hyman

Three headed center line
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Rielly4 said:
Hyman-Matthews-Marner
Galchenyuk-Kerfoot-Nylander
Foligno-Engvall-Simmonds
Thornton-Brooks-Spezza

Probably get Dermott in for Sandin too. Dermott is just sucha good skater and much harder to play against.

Mikheyev and Nash were very bad imo and need to come out, Engvall was good in last years playoffs and brings pace. Brooks was great with the two old timers they had amazing chemistry.
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cookie said:
Nylander lead team Sweden and was the top scorer in the 2019 world championships, beating guys like Kucherov and Stone. He had almost twice as many points as his second-highest scoring teammate. If I recall correctly, he was playing LW and C for that tournament and the leafs could certainly use that firepower in addition to the Marner-Matthews duo.

Foligno Matthews Marner
Nylander Kerfoot Galchenyuk
Hyman Engvall Mikheyev
Nash Spezza Simmonds

Muzzin Holl
Rielly Brodie
Sandin Bogosian
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123offtheglass said:
Should have had him play center some during the season... better to keep him on the wing unless the “next man (center) up’ fails.

give that 2nd line a boost with Hyman, put Foligno back on the 1st because you know that works.

Foligno - Matthews - Marner
Hyman - Kerfoot - Nylander
Mikheyev - Nash - Simmonds
Thornton - Brooks - Spezza

Nylander can split duties with Kerfoot; he can dip his toe in the water rather than dive in the deep end. Take the right side draws too.

chucky has a case for the 2nd line, Engvall for the bottom 6 too though.
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I know panic is second nature to Leaf fans, but I look at the examples above and I'm ok with any of them. Sure, I'd prefer JT, but that's not going to happen. I look at these suggestions and I see a team with options, and pretty good ones at that. Well done folks.
 
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Rielly4 said:
Hyman-Matthews-Marner
Galchenyuk-Kerfoot-Nylander
Foligno-Engvall-Simmonds
Thornton-Brooks-Spezza

Probably get Dermott in for Sandin too. Dermott is just sucha good skater and much harder to play against.

Mikheyev and Nash were very bad imo and need to come out, Engvall was good in last years playoffs and brings pace. Brooks was great with the two old timers they had amazing chemistry.
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I’d give Nash another shot at 4C over Brooks but otherwise this lineup looks good given the circumstances.
 
MR4 said:
It’s clear that we have no one that can perform at a high level at 2C when looking at the other options like Kerfoot & Foligno at 2C.

This would also offer a winger position to someone like Gally or Engvall, that has shown scoring talents, to be put on Nylander’s wing. And it does stabilize the other lines by just needing to add a winger from the bench onto the 2nd line, instead of using a blender on the regular season lines that we did this game.

What does Leafs Nation think?
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I don't believe Nylander is a high level 2c. I thought he had a pretty good game. We need to mess him around. Leave the kid be and allow him to be a high level winger.
 
sxvnert said:
Put foligno at center with those pairings and they're good to go.
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This was my first thought, Galcheyuk-Foligno-Nylander as a way to preserve some of the offense after losing JT

in 2017 when he was traded to CBJ he was used at C quite a bit, as years went on it was just spot duty at best. So I am not sure how viable it is.

I don't hate the idea of using Spezza as well (with extra minutes for Matthews) but I absolutely hate Kerfoot at C
 
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cookie said:
Nylander lead team Sweden and was the top scorer in the 2019 world championships, beating guys like Kucherov and Stone. He had almost twice as many points as his second-highest scoring teammate. If I recall correctly, he was playing LW and C for that tournament and the leafs could certainly use that firepower in addition to the Marner-Matthews duo.

Foligno Matthews Marner
Nylander Kerfoot Galchenyuk
Hyman Engvall Mikheyev
Nash Spezza Simmonds

Muzzin Holl
Rielly Brodie
Sandin Bogosian
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Nylander Kerfoot Galchenyuk
wow i can pretty much guarentee this line will end the night -3
 
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Nylander was engaged last night, thought it was one of his better playoff games. I would rather keep him on the wing and let him focus on playing like he did last night.
 
What I think Keefe will do:

Hyman - Matthews - Marner
Foligno - Kerfoot - Nylander
Mikheyev - Nash - Simmonds
Thornton - Engvall - Spezza

(chance he goes for Brooks over Engvall, given the fit he had with Jumbo & Spezza)
 
Short answer - NO .. a centre has to go back behind net and take a hit to make a play in his own end .. any guy who sees a hit coming and shoots it high over glass for a penalty and then backpedals to avoid hit can't play centre in playoff hockey .. self explanatory
 
He'd be much better driving the line from that spot than Kerfoot but Kerfoot has clearly the more recent experience so he likely gets the edge
 
It's a relief seeing so many posters acknowledging that Nylander is NOT an NHL caliber centre after years of :banghead: arguing with other posters that exact point.
 
Likely Willy moves up with Matty and Zach and we can create some offense .. those 3 should be able to create in da trap
 
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