Équipe: 2019-20 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 28 juill. 2020

Publié: 29 juill. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

These line have a lot better chemistry than the current ones in my opinion.

Suzuki and Tatar have a real good connection, Suzuki is always setting Tatar up, usually on the powerplay but I think it would work at 5 on 5.

Domi and Drouin are probably MTL's most talented players and they are dangerous with the puck on their stick. Gallagher has already proven to be one of the best play drivers in the entire NHL, he would get Drouin and Domi more time in the offensive zone. How this line hasn't even been tried ONCE is a testament to how blind Julien is as a coach.

KK actually looked decent, had some good moments and some bad. Most of the bad was on the Powerplay where Julien sees him being a bumper guy or someone racing to retrieve pucks, so what else can you expect. Byron was really good, Armia would be better lower in the lineup.

4th line could arguably be Weal and Weise, however let's be honest here and say, how much better is Weal and Weise vs Poehling and Evans? The playoff experience for Poehling and Evans would be way more meaningful than playing Weal and Weise who are hopefully our 13th and 14th forwards next year if anything. What's the worst that can happen, they lose and get a chance at Lafreniere?

Weber looked awful last night. Yeah it was only exhibition, but there aren't any exhibitions left. Him and Chiarot are slow, good players will eat them alive. I'd much rather see Mete playing with Weber again. Mete also got beat in front of the net for a tip. When Mete and Weber are together, Weber usually does all the net front clearing while Mete uses his skating to pressure the puck carriers.

Kulak has to play with Petry, he isn't very effective without him.

That leaves Chiarot and whoever, I would choose Juulsen based on the performances of Fluery and Ouellet last night, and Olofsson and Folin in the past.