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Pretty solid. I’m very interested to see what Balcers can do when he gets here. And I think Handemark will likely be playing over Chmelevski for FO reasons. But I would like to see Sasha get the call.

I think they will try Donato- Gregor -Balcers and drop Nieto to the 4th line.

I’d also like to see Knyzhov will a real NHL partner before trying any of the other D we have.

I thought Sorenson played very solid in game 1 (I wasn’t able to see game 2)
From what I saw, Karlsson was on Ice for all of Arizona’s goals in game 1 and I believe at Least 2 in game 2, that is pathetic, any other player would have been benched, why is this lazy worthless man considered elite (maybe elite waste of money)

I have the lines exactly the same way you've oriented them - I agree with what you said completely (except for Karlsson, hes been okay; still needs to show more but I have my opinion that hes clearly easing into the season and being reserved due to his past injury and lack of preseason to be sure hes 100% for a NHL year, instead of killing himself like he used to do in the past). I like the lineup you put up and hope its the one we see. If anything were to be different Id say Id hope to see playing Simek on pair 1 and use Ferraro's strength with Burns to hopefully get him to wake up on pair 2. To split up Karlsson and Ferraro (our two best D currently).



being on for a goal doesnt mean you suck - because if thats the way things worked than all goalies suck cause theyre on for every goal. (Plus minus is a very old and archaic stat that is worthless).
Karlsson has NOT been bad. Game 1; tough but he wasnt bad, wasnt good - he was average and played 32 minutes while he clearly was just warming up ( it was evident ), while I would only say 1 goal was partly his fault (the third, but karlsson isnt a physical player and would only be physical if it was the playoffs when its on the line, so yes he can be "blamed" but the goal was also just a unlucky bounce that squeaked through Jones).
Game 2 Karlsson was better and 90% of the team sucked; he was not part of that 90%. Hes also being over used due to our lack of a real third pair (except for Knyzhov), and lack of a top 4 (with Vlasic and Burns being underwhelming).

So lol...no he will not be benched nor is he worthless.