With Stoll Out, Who Do You Insert into Lineup?

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Projected Lines – Los Angeles

Dustin Brown – Anze Kopitar – Justin Williams
Dwight King – Mike Richards – Jeff Carter
Dustin Penner – Brad Richardson – Trevor Lewis
Jordan Nolan – Colin Fraser – Tyler Toffoli

Robyn Regehr – Drew Doughty
Rob Scuderi – Slava Voynov
Jake Muzzin – Alec Martinez

Jonathan Quick


SJ loading up their top 6.


Projected Lines – San Jose

TJ Galiardi – Joe Thornton – Brent Burns
Patrick Marleau – Logan Couture – Joe Pavelski
Jame Sheppard – Scott Gomez – Tommy Wingels
Andrew Desjardins – Tim Kennedy – Bracken Kearns

Matt Irwin – Dan Boyle
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun
Scott Hannan – Brad Stuart

Antti Niemi


We can take them on 5-5 without Stoll. We need to stay out of the box though.
This is a team that struggled with goals in the regular season so we can shut them down again. Without Clowe, Torres and Murray this team is soft. Hard on the body and they will crack.

What scares me is having Richardson at center. Stoll's line saw a lot of Thorntons line and that scares me. Quite possible that Sutter uses home ice to protect them, but we all should know Richardson is not great defensively at the C.

 

[tinyzombies]

Carter is a natural center.

 

[Little Psycho]

If Richardon's line gets burned too often, I can see Sutter splitting up Carts and Richards. We might just about see any combination with Stollie out now.