love the Kent-Foudy-Olivier swap for Bemstrom-Robinson-Roslovic. love the rearrangement to bring back last year’s highly successful 86-38-13 line and this preseason’s electric 11-29-42 line. i don’t agree with pazzy all the time but I love the way he is coaching right now. it was reported that practice today was all about pace and winning individual battles.
by ASillyGoos3
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Looks much better
Absolutely love this iteration, I hope the boys get it done tomorrow in convincing fashion so that 96-52-50 stay off the ice for as long as possible. If/when this team makes the playoffs, those 3 won’t be in the lineup, so let’s go ahead and rip the band-aid off now.
This should please pretty much everyone from the post game thread.
I like these a lot. Let’s go get the Rags tomorrow night!
I say keep Fantilli at center personally and let him grow but that doesn’t seem to be our MO much anymore these days
Fantilli on the wing? 😵💫
Laine centering Fantilli is so funny. At least KJ is in.
I’m happy kj is in but I want fantilli at center. Don’t want to overreact to one game too much
Would they be bringing Olivier into the mix since literally no one else could stand up for Z last night? Honestly, that would make sense as to why
If only there was a preseason to figure these out so that you don’t have to make drastic changes game 2.
Wouldn’t put much stock in this, 5 minutes before another insider posted a different mix
https://x.com/jacketsinsider/status/1712870396687474882?s=46
I will say, Bemstrom looked the best I’d seen him in a long time. If 52 played more like he played this past game, itd be easy choosing him over ERob, Foudy, and Rosy. And if that play results in him putting more pucks in the back of the net, I’d even consider THAT Bemstrom over Olivier.
Olivier good to go? His toughness was sorely missed in Flyers game. I’d like to see Robbie or Jack I’m for Foudy….but both looked way off Opening night, so give Foudy a game I guess. Jiricek is the future for sure. But I’d like to have seen Blankenberg get that call up. His hard work & energy deserves it! Plus he could run one of PP groups if needed with Z out (I assume Boquist slots in there now for a week or two). In person, they weren’t the only ones, but was very disappointed with Provorov’s & Severson’s games last night. Game # 1 with new team so they get a pass, but wow they looked lost. Hope they both can pick it up, lot of money & term spent on both; they need to work out!!