It's the start of camp.
Strome and Pulju were building chemistry, Rattie was building chemistry with McDavid. Draisaitl had no one and probably wants to play with Rieder.
I've seen "crazier" things at camp.
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Strome and Pulju were building chemistry, Rattie was building chemistry with McDavid. Draisaitl had no one and probably wants to play with Rieder.
I've seen "crazier" things at camp.
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Third line at ES is fine. Strome, Khaira and him seemed to be getting some chemistry going at the end of last year so they could build off of that. I'll be very irritated if he's not given an opportunity on the top PP unit in camp though.
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imo it's crazy not to try to keep the McDavid-Rattie thing going. We struggle getting chemistry with McDavid, and then have to resort to putting Drai there. You can't just put JP in that spot and assume it will work, and btw having a talented player like JP on the third line will be an amazing asset.
As far as I'm concerned, the third line won't be purgatory. That line was looking good at the end of the season, in that stretch where the Lucic-McDavid experiment was finally abandoned. They likely won't be buried in the D zone either, so it could be a good launching pad if the quality of comp is less (which seems likely to me)
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Rieder is going to get a shot on that 2 RW spot probably because him and Drai have showed chemistry internationally before and it's kind of a no brainer to try it.
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There's always merit too, and if the camp and preseason are done right, then JP should get a legit chance to show he belongs in the top six and grab a spot there. One potentially bad sign is that Lucic is penciled into the top six there, when to me he should get similar treatment as JP and play on the third line for now. If the summer training was for real and he's good again, then he should have no problem grabbing the top six spot from Caggiula or whoever.
If Pulju looks great in camp on the third line he will get a shot up higher. If he is dogging it and isn't showing skill then he won't.
And why should an NHL veteran with a long history of much better play be put in the same situation as a young player who hasn't shown much?
Lucic gets the benefit of the doubt because of his history.
And Lucic take his spot back from Caggiula or whoever? You talk about Merritt and Caggiula in the top 6 in the same post?
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I'd bring in Hartnell on a PTO....better than Upshall as well. Would have brought in Winnik as well.. but he's gone to Boston.
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Rebooting myself
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Call Scott Harnell
Curious if this is the reason Chiasson was also given a PTO
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Training camp is started,
San Jose gets Karlsson, LV got MaxPac and the Oilers are going in without Nurse.
getting harder and harder to be optimistic for the season.
San Jose gets Karlsson, LV got MaxPac and the Oilers are going in without Nurse.
getting harder and harder to be optimistic for the season.
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and again...
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