Not a big fan of your line combos. If you want an “energy line,”. It’s clearly Yanni centering Kartye and Tanev. In fact, bringing in Stephenson allows you make Yanni your “4th line” center. Which is great. Also; Shane Wright is not a 4th line player, and Bylsma won’t use him that way. He needs to play with players who can finish…which would not be Tanev. He actually looked like one of the best players on the ice when he played the end of last year. More likely lines: Tolvanen - Beniers - Bjorkstrand McCann - Stephenson - Burakovsky Schwartz - Wright - Eberle Kartye - Gourde - Tanev Dunn, Montour and Evans are all reliable puck moving D, so it is likely we will see Dunn - Larsson Oleksiak - Montour Evans - Borgen But when Oleksiak makes terrible decisions in our D Zone, which he will definitely do, Bylsma will healthy scratch him…unlike Hakstol. Then we will see Mahura with Montour.
That trade for Leon is a good shout.
Not a big fan of your line combos. If you want an “energy line,”. It’s clearly Yanni centering Kartye and Tanev. In fact, bringing in Stephenson allows you make Yanni your “4th line” center. Which is great.
Also; Shane Wright is not a 4th line player, and Bylsma won’t use him that way. He needs to play with players who can finish…which would not be Tanev. He actually looked like one of the best players on the ice when he played the end of last year. More likely lines:
Tolvanen - Beniers - Bjorkstrand
McCann - Stephenson - Burakovsky
Schwartz - Wright - Eberle
Kartye - Gourde - Tanev
Dunn, Montour and Evans are all reliable puck moving D, so it is likely we will see
Dunn - Larsson
Oleksiak - Montour
Evans - Borgen
But when Oleksiak makes terrible decisions in our D Zone, which he will definitely do, Bylsma will healthy scratch him…unlike Hakstol. Then we will see Mahura with Montour.
Not my combos, Daily Faceoff & Sound of Hockey, but I LOVE Gourde with Tolvy & Bjorkstrand, specifically the two wingers