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Originally Posted by OverTheCap
Similar to last season, it seems like we have too many 4th liners in the bottom 6 and not enough 3rd liners.
Boyle and Pyatt are 3rd-4th line tweeners. Their production may be less than prototypical 3rd liners in this league.
I like Halpern because of his faceoff ability, but I assumed he would be a spare forward on occasion. He was a healthy scratch for the Caps in the playoffs. It wouldn't hurt for Rupp to be a healthy scratch every now and then either. But there really isn't enough depth at the moment to have the luxury of going those players nights off.
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add doan and after gabby returns you have hagelin and 1 of kreider/doan/cally on the 3rd line. boyle isn't the ideal #3 center but you still have 2/3 of that line made of guys that played in the top 6 last year. thats pretty solid in my book