April 23, 2007

Okay so more roster discussion

So here's a new look at it:

Here are the lines we have now:

__________-__________-Hossa

Kovy-__________-________

__________-Holik-____________

__________-_________-_________

Zhitnik-Havelid

________-________

________-________

Lehtonen
Hedberg

Rucchin being healthy is also a player we have signed

So priorities being:
Kozlov
Dupuis
Belanger

That will mostly fill out the top 2 lines...

From there we can fill up the 3rd and 4th line with a mix of veterans/prospects

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting how you position Hossa's line over Kovalchuk's... Haven't we already see how wrong that was towards the end of season and PO's??? Kovalchuck's line produced a lot as soon as he had a decent partner to play with.

mstigall said...

I would agree with you, but typically the hossa line is referred to as the 1st line, I dont know if the acquisition of Tkachuk changed that but honestly the top 2 lines are more like 1a and 1b. Hell, even the Holik line gets a start some games when Hartley wants to set a defensive tone. If you look at TOI and starts, the Hossa line appears to be the 1st line. I am in total agreement of that line's play down the stretch...but remember Hossa was playing hurt