Nah, keep the first line intact, it's the only thing that works right now on the forward side, don't mess with it.

Landeskog-Kadri-Nichuskin were also an offensive black hole in the playoffs, I'm not keen to see that experiment again.

Also, don't be benching Byram. He deserves to play.

I do agree with introducing Kaut though.

Landeskog ---- Mackinnon ---- Rantanen
Nichuskin --------- Kadri --------- Burakovsky
Saad ------------- Compher ------ Kaut
Calvert --------- Bellemare ------ Jost

Toews --- Makar
Girard --- Graves
Byram --- Johnson

Seems like any shake-up to that 1st line in the past has just not worked out.

Why would Byram be out. He’s much better than EJ

I feel that the way the Avalanche are going to be rotating defenseman is like a pitching rotation is baseball, maybe they play Byram again but since EJ has been resting he could be playing