I really like putting jesse with mcdavid but I think nuge-leon-yamo line should stay as a line fully with maybe kahun-mcdavid-jeese also being a line????

Nuge just doesn't drive a line like McDavid and Draisaitl can, and I'd highly recommend that Edmonton refrains in any capacity from running RNH as a top-six center. If they had the winger depth to plug him into the #3C spot from time to time, I'd be game. I agree that dismantling the DYNamite line was premature, but RNH still plays very well with McDavid. Pairing Connor with Jesse is going to want to see a more defensively-responsible winger for the short-term (I really like what I've seen from JP13 so far) and the Kahun-Draisaitl-Yamamoto line has been decent, if not a little snake-bitten. I'd really only be looking at demoting Kassian and promoting Puljujarvi as far as line changes for the top-nine are concerned.

If Neal's good to go, I'd be swapping him in for Nygard and benching Chiasson in favour of Archibald. Chiasson's been nothing shy of an anchor this season so far, and I still appreciate the PK utility Archibald brings. EDIT: Tipp might opt to go with Neal on the powerplay given the team's history with him there, but giving Puljujarvi some PP1 time would be really good for his confidence too.

I fundamentally hate this organization's borderline obsession with defencemen like Larsson and Russell: both have proven ineffective this season, and I'd be happily looking into playing a trio of:

Nurse - Bear
Koekkoek - Barrie
Lagesson - Bouchard

especially tonight with Matthews out. This team needs puck-moving defencemen to spring the forwards and they just aren't getting that through their veteran defenders. Nurse has been a trainwreck this season and I'd really be looking to reel in his TOI and trying to distribute minutes as much as possible throughout the six defenders.

Interesting defence pairings... I agree on your reasoning on the top 6. After that brutal giveaway to Matthews last game, and Puljujarvi very good efforts, he could use some promotion time on the first to see how he does. I feel like we just started to gain confidence after the last game, and believe that we are gonna be a good team moving forward, as that was just a slump in my opinion.