Sabres are elite
Rejoint: juin 2017
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Personally I think these should be the lines:
Hyman-McDavid-Foegele
RNH-Drai-Yama
Benson-McLeod-Turris
Archi-Ryan-Kassian
Line 1 plays with speed and Hyman and Foegele are puck hounds and put in tons of work. They will get the puck to McDavid and both can finish his setups
Line 2 has had great chemistry so no need to break it up
Line 3 is super young with Benson and McLeod so Turris provides experience for those two rookies. Benson has tons of potential imo and needs to get at least 3 line minutes to produce. Turris is still a good bottom 6 player and needs to play in the lineup 100%
Line 4 is your vet line that can shut down other teams top lines if necessary. Kassian should be on the ice as little as possible as the Oilers are going for a skilled team, not a goon squad. I know Kassian is very fast and can energize the team but he should be doing that on the 4th line, not the 2nd
The D pairings are going to be terrible no matter how you slice it because Barrie and Ceci are both going to get nearly 20 mins a night. Only good pairing is Russell-Bouchard