Popular Post PunjabiCanucks23 Posted July 3 Popular Post Share Posted July 3 (edited) With July 1st completed- Majority of UFAs Signed. What are your starting line combinations? Hoglander Petey DeBrusk Heinen Miller Boeser Joshua Blueger Garland Podkolzin Suter Sherwood Extras: PDG, Aman - Hughes - Hronek Myers. - Soucy Forbort - Desharnais Extras: Juulsen, Friedman - Demko Silovs -- I feel the above combinations give us the best bang for our buck. Ideally I'd love to see Willander or Lekey take a step forward in to the big club. Ideally Lekey replaces Hoglander on line 1 and Hoglander drops to line 2 . Willander had a good day at camp and would look great under a calm veteran in Soucy... What are your thoughts? Ideas? Edited July 3 by PunjabiCanucks23 3 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHLer Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Think you hit general consesus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM_Ranger Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 I think there will be a lot of rotations between Hogs, Heinen, Joshua and Podz, but yes I agree with your starting lineup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTramFan Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Forwards I would like to see this tried: Debrusk Miller Boeser Joshua Pettersson Garland Hoglander Suter Sherwood Heinen Blueger Podkolzin Defense, I'd like to see us add a legit 3LD: Hughes Hronek Soucy Myers ??? Desharnais Forbort Juulsen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 I think Lekkerimäki makes the team and we end up trading Höglander and get a pick back and a veteran forward or Dman. We have over $2.5 million in cap space, so if we trade Höglander that’s another million, so with $3.5 million we could get a significant player. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 1 hour ago, BigTramFan said: Forwards I would like to see this tried: Debrusk Miller Boeser Joshua Pettersson Garland Hoglander Suter Sherwood Heinen Blueger Podkolzin Defense, I'd like to see us add a legit 3LD: Hughes Hronek Soucy Myers ??? Desharnais Forbort Juulsen Intriguing forward group. I'd probably swap Podkolzin and Sherwood, since I'd still want to see what we might have in Podz and Kiefer thrived in a 4th line role so he can do well on that defensive group, but I see the blend you're going for. If Joshua and Garland catch fire with Petey that's an interesting, speedy two-way line with legit size to help Petey out, and Miller and DeBrusk together on the rush would be exciting to watch. I think Haydn Fleury or Kylington for that 3 LD would be perfect. Mobile but safe in Fleury, while Kylington has some depth offensive upside. OPTIMALLY someone bumps Myers down a pair but I'm starting to wonder if we're stuck with what we have on RD (give Boqvist a shot?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakrami Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 3 hours ago, BigTramFan said: Forwards I would like to see this tried: Debrusk Miller Boeser Joshua Pettersson Garland Hoglander Suter Sherwood Heinen Blueger Podkolzin Defense, I'd like to see us add a legit 3LD: Hughes Hronek Soucy Myers ??? Desharnais Forbort Juulsen How is Forbort not a legit 3LD? In fact, I think he is underrated and will play well. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTramFan Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 2 hours ago, Phil_314 said: Intriguing forward group. I'd probably swap Podkolzin and Sherwood, since I'd still want to see what we might have in Podz and Kiefer thrived in a 4th line role so he can do well on that defensive group, but I see the blend you're going for. If Joshua and Garland catch fire with Petey that's an interesting, speedy two-way line with legit size to help Petey out, and Miller and DeBrusk together on the rush would be exciting to watch. I think Haydn Fleury or Kylington for that 3 LD would be perfect. Mobile but safe in Fleury, while Kylington has some depth offensive upside. OPTIMALLY someone bumps Myers down a pair but I'm starting to wonder if we're stuck with what we have on RD (give Boqvist a shot?) Good thoughts. I just don't think Podz has the offensive pop to play 3rd line, whereas Sherwood had 27 pts last season and has some definite top-9 upside potential. Would like to see Myers pushed down to the 3rd pair too, but given Desharnais, Juulsen, Friedman are all below Myers on the depth chart, can't see PA getting another RD. Fleury would be my preference out of those suggestions for 3LD. I wonder whether Ryan Suter could be signed to a cheap 1-year contract. He could provide a real settling influence to Myers or Desharnais. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTramFan Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 1 hour ago, Drakrami said: How is Forbort not a legit 3LD? In fact, I think he is underrated and will play well. Yeah I guess he is. I'm not running down Forbort and I'm looking forward to his physicality. But it's probably more the bottom 2 pairings overall that don't inspire me with confidence. I feel like Soucy plays a real solid defensive game that helps his partner to play better. He's likely paired with Myers on the second pairing and they are serviceable, but imo that isn't really a true talent second pairing. Ideally their minutes aren't as high as a typical 2nd pairing. We also don't want Hughes-Hronek playing 25 mins every night. So that all means our 3rd pairing is going to be relied on to play more minutes than a regular 3rd pairing and I'm not confident that Forbort-Desharnais will handle that. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. They are certainly going to hurt some people! Ideally I'd like to add a calming presence like a Ryan Suter, which pushes Friedman out of the top 8 and provides some real experience and gives us excellent defensive depth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 (edited) 5 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said: I think Lekkerimäki makes the team and we end up trading Höglander and get a pick back and a veteran forward or Dman. We have over $2.5 million in cap space, so if we trade Höglander that’s another million, so with $3.5 million we could get a significant player. First off I agree that we will need to move on from one of Hogs or Podz this season. Believe we have 2.74 with full LTIR use but could be wrong. As for Hogs, he makes 1.1 so the most we save us 350k or so league min. Was thinking we could trade Suter. His cap hit 1.6, would bump remaining funds up 850k. To upgrade something. Would mean Aman slots in, not the best scenario, but it maybe is enough to upgrade our center depth or defense. A 3C or a Cole like replacement, bumping Forbet out. Also think Allvin should stop at this point. Let the dust settle on UFA signings. Some players who haven't signed, might have too big of an ask, later take what they can get. Actually see Allvin making a trade too, and Hogs or Podz will be the guys involved. Edited July 3 by IBatch 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 (edited) 2 hours ago, BigTramFan said: Yeah I guess he is. I'm not running down Forbort and I'm looking forward to his physicality. But it's probably more the bottom 2 pairings overall that don't inspire me with confidence. I feel like Soucy plays a real solid defensive game that helps his partner to play better. He's likely paired with Myers on the second pairing and they are serviceable, but imo that isn't really a true talent second pairing. Ideally their minutes aren't as high as a typical 2nd pairing. We also don't want Hughes-Hronek playing 25 mins every night. So that all means our 3rd pairing is going to be relied on to play more minutes than a regular 3rd pairing and I'm not confident that Forbort-Desharnais will handle that. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. They are certainly going to hurt some people! Ideally I'd like to add a calming presence like a Ryan Suter, which pushes Friedman out of the top 8 and provides some real experience and gives us excellent defensive depth. Agree with you. It's a lot like last season, entering the season that is. Last year we had 3 5's in Cole, Myers and Soucy. With Friedman and Juulsen. But we also had 6 legit NHL d's for the first time in a decade and well QH's. Think that they might plan on splitting up QHs and Hronek. QHs managed with Schenn, he should manage with Desharnais. Soucy Hronek is a legit second pairing. Forbet Myers a good third pairing. This way, they can keep QHs and Hronek's around the same, Soucy gets a bump and the third pairing no problems in the 16-18 minute range. It's either that or QH's and Hronek will be on the ice 27-30 minutes regularly. Edited July 3 by IBatch 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 2 hours ago, BigTramFan said: Yeah I guess he is. I'm not running down Forbort and I'm looking forward to his physicality. But it's probably more the bottom 2 pairings overall that don't inspire me with confidence. I feel like Soucy plays a real solid defensive game that helps his partner to play better. He's likely paired with Myers on the second pairing and they are serviceable, but imo that isn't really a true talent second pairing. Ideally their minutes aren't as high as a typical 2nd pairing. We also don't want Hughes-Hronek playing 25 mins every night. So that all means our 3rd pairing is going to be relied on to play more minutes than a regular 3rd pairing and I'm not confident that Forbort-Desharnais will handle that. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. They are certainly going to hurt some people! Ideally I'd like to add a calming presence like a Ryan Suter, which pushes Friedman out of the top 8 and provides some real experience and gives us excellent defensive depth. I'd like to see Soucy with either Desharnais or Hronek and keep Myers with Forbort as a shutdown pair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithers joe Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 i'ld like them to try, joshua miller boeser; debrusk pettersson garland; hoglander suter sherwood; heinen blueger podkolzin. 1 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 10 minutes ago, smithers joe said: i'ld like them to try, joshua miller boeser; debrusk pettersson garland; hoglander suter sherwood; heinen blueger podkolzin. Suter over Aman please. Id like to see; Bebrusk Miller Boeser Joshua EP Garland Hoglander Bluegar Podz Heinen Suter Sherwood OR Heinen Miller Boeser De-Brusk EP Hogs Joshua Bluegar Garland (why break up the band) Sherwood Suter Podz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithers joe Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 32 minutes ago, IBatch said: Suter over Aman please. Id like to see; Bebrusk Miller Boeser Joshua EP Garland Hoglander Bluegar Podz Heinen Suter Sherwood OR Heinen Miller Boeser De-Brusk EP Hogs Joshua Bluegar Garland (why break up the band) Sherwood Suter Podz shannon says heinen is most effective in the bottom 6. suter has more scoring ability than blueger. suter and hogs are better suited so far, on the bottom six. i have the 6 highest paid forwards on the top 2 lines. chemistry will dictate how the lines go. imo petey needs a scorer and board battler with him, miller could use another physical winger/strong defensive player on his wing. tocchet might go in a completely different direction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPA Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Podz Miller Boeser DeBrusk EP Hogz Joshua Blueger Garland Heinin Suter Sherwood PDG Aman Hughes Hronek Soucy Myers Forbert Desharnais Juulsen Demko Silovs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyQuinns Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Maybe try this 'no excuses Petey' lineup: Debrusk/EP/Brock Joshua/Miller/Garls Heinen/Suter/Sherrod PDG/Blue/Podz Use Hogs/prospect/picks for a puck moving D... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKSR Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 I'm most excited to see how effective our PK should be next year. Our top PK unit should be lights out. Blueger-Heinen Forbort-Desharnais Look at the PK ability of the guys we just acquired: 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 (edited) 5 hours ago, IBatch said: First off I agree that we will need to move on from one of Hogs or Podz this season. Believe we have 2.74 with full LTIR use but could be wrong. As for Hogs, he makes 1.1 so the most we save us 350k or so league min. Was thinking we could trade Suter. His cap hit 1.6, would bump remaining funds up 850k. To upgrade something. Would mean Aman slots in, not the best scenario, but it maybe is enough to upgrade our center depth or defense. A 3C or a Cole like replacement, bumping Forbet out. Also think Allvin should stop at this point. Let the dust settle on UFA signings. Some players who haven't signed, might have too big of an ask, later take what they can get. Actually see Allvin making a trade too, and Hogs or Podz will be the guys involved. I agree with this. We could weaponize our cap space at training camp. One team that is over the cap right now is Nashville. They are over by almost $200k with only 21 players signed. I would target Colton Sissons. He makes almost $2.9 million. Trade Suter and a pick for Sissons and we have our right shot 3C/4C. Nashville gets under the cap and has enough to sign another player. Win/win for both teams. We’d still have $1.5 million left over in cap space. So we could upgrade the defence with the remaining money. If we move Freidman out we could get another LHD for up to $2 million. Again we could weaponize the cap space and make a trade. Edited July 3 by Elias Pettersson 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 1 hour ago, Elias Pettersson said: I agree with this. We could weaponize our cap space at training camp. One team that is over the cap right now is Nashville. They are over by almost $200k with only 21 players signed. I would target Colton Sissons. He makes almost $2.9 million. Trade Suter and a pick for Sissons and we have our right shot 3C/4C. Nashville gets under the cap and has enough to sign another player. Win/win for both teams. We’d still have $1.5 million left over in cap space. So we could upgrade the defence with the remaining money. If we move Freidman out we could get another LHD for up to $2 million. Again we could weaponize the cap space and make a trade. As usual, you're thinking out of the box in a good way. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 3 hours ago, HKSR said: I'm most excited to see how effective our PK should be next year. Our top PK unit should be lights out. Blueger-Heinen Forbort-Desharnais Look at the PK ability of the guys we just acquired: In that case: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 3 hours ago, HKSR said: I'm most excited to see how effective our PK should be next year. Our top PK unit should be lights out. Blueger-Heinen Forbort-Desharnais Look at the PK ability of the guys we just acquired: It's almost like the current management know what they are doing... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 15 hours ago, PunjabiCanucks23 said: Hoglander Petey DeBrusk Heinen Miller Boeser Joshua Blueger Garland Podkolzin Suter Sherwood love this combo. Pain in the ass the whole way through. Actually starting to feel like an identity, it's been a long time. 15 hours ago, PunjabiCanucks23 said: Hughes - Hronek Myers. - Soucy Forbort - Desharnais Can't argue with the top pair. I like Myers-Soucy, not sure they are better than a really good 3rd pairing tho. Forbort- VD does feel like a bit of an experiment and they might get taken advantage of on puck movement.... but we don't know what Foote has planned either here. Will be really interesting to find out. We have the backup plan of Forbort-Juulson so thats fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rypien-Punch Posted July 4 Share Posted July 4 9 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said: I agree with this. We could weaponize our cap space at training camp. One team that is over the cap right now is Nashville. They are over by almost $200k with only 21 players signed. I would target Colton Sissons. He makes almost $2.9 million. Trade Suter and a pick for Sissons and we have our right shot 3C/4C. Nashville gets under the cap and has enough to sign another player. Win/win for both teams. We’d still have $1.5 million left over in cap space. So we could upgrade the defence with the remaining money. If we move Freidman out we could get another LHD for up to $2 million. Again we could weaponize the cap space and make a trade. love this idea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rypien-Punch Posted July 4 Share Posted July 4 I predict Cole Mcward steels a spot with Hughes in training camp. Hronek balances out the second pairing Starting Lineup Hoglander Pettersson Lekkerimaki Debrusk Miller Boeser Joshua Scissons Garland Heinen Blueger Sherwood Podkolzin Karlsson Hughes Mcward Soucy Hronek Forbert Myers Desjarnais Juulsen 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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