Lines with Pasta

If he keeps it up, i don’t see how they bump ritchie out of the top six. I’ll have to eat crow on that one.

He's not been great at 5v5 with Krejci and has done most of his damage on the PP. If L1 didn't get touched and they keep rolling 11-13-12 then Ritchie is either 2LW (which hasn't worked at 5v5) or 4LW who plays PP1

Thats actually a really good point I was gonna comment cmon you cant demote ritchie, but this is true. Also he could finally spark that 4th line too... while keeping his PP minutes

heres the thing though. unless they just leave bjork as a healthy scratch he has to pass waivers to go to taxi squad where frederic and studnicka dont. I heard pastrnak might be available for saturdays game but who knows. After last nights injury to debrusk you might not have to move ritchie off of the 2nd line. no idea how long kase is out either.

I'd leave Bjork as a scratch as he's a LW/RW can play on just about any line and not hurt you. If someone starts to slip or isn't playing hard then Bjork slides in.