I would really like to see them put Galiardi on one of the top lines to see if that jump starts his scoring. Galliardi-Couture-Marleau would be a supper fast line.
Galliardi-Marleau-Havlat would be a faster line or lol Galliardi-Marleau-Mitchell
Galiardi-Thornton-Couture (they've looked good when put together at times, JT/Cooch and GL/JT)
Clowe-Pavelski-Marleau (better than the Clowe-Pavelski-Michalek line we had)
Winnik-Moore-Wingels (I think Winnik fits best on a 3rd line, no use in putting him in the top-6)
Winchester-Desjardins-Mitchell (Can all be really useful on the 4th line and Handzus' not-caring last night made me rage)
Love it for the regular season.
For the playoffs, I love the idea of Winnik-Moore-Pavelski (basically re-creating last year's line but with more physicality).
or go with:
Marleau-Thornton-Galiardi (TJ F1, Patty/Jumbo's defense will be enough to cover for TJ's deficiencies)
Clowe-Couture-Wingels (Wingels F1)
Winnik-Pavelski-Havlat (Winnik F1)
Winchester-Desjardins-Mitchell
Handzus
edit: holy ****, those lines look awesome. Also, I had a thread for new line-ups. Why create a new one?
Last edited by Kitten Mittons: 03-08-2012 at 08:31 PM.
For the playoffs, I love the idea of Winnik-Moore-Pavelski (basically re-creating last year's line but with more physicality).
or go with:
Marleau-Thornton-Galiardi (TJ will be F1 which is perfect for those two)
Clowe-Couture-Wingels (Wingels F1)
Winnik-Pavelski-Havlat (Winnik F1)
Winchester-Desjardins-Mitchell
Handzus
It's a shame we're not the coaches KM. They'll probably bench Gali and Wingels in the playoffs(if we make it) for Handzus and Sheppard. They'll also bench Demers and Braun and play White and Vandy for the bottom pairing.
It's a shame we're not the coaches KM. They'll probably bench Gali and Wingels in the playoffs(if we make it) for Handzus and Sheppard. They'll also bench Demers and Braun and play White and Vandy for the bottom pairing.
I think they put too much on experience rather than how a player is playing. Also I don'think there is any way Sheppard is playing this year, and definitely not in the playoffs.
FORWARDS
Patrick Marleau / Joe Thornton / Joe Pavelski
Tommy Wingels / Logan Couture / Ryane Clowe
Daniel Winnik / Dominic Moore / T.J. Galiardi
Brad Winchester / Michal Handzus / Torrey Mitchell
DEFENSEMEN
Dan Boyle / Douglas Murray
Marc-Edouard Vlasic / Brent Burns
Jason Demers / Jim Vandermeer
FORWARDS
Patrick Marleau / Joe Thornton / Joe Pavelski
Tommy Wingels / Logan Couture / Ryane Clowe
Daniel Winnik / Dominic Moore / T.J. Galiardi
Brad Winchester / Michal Handzus / Torrey Mitchell
DEFENSEMEN
Dan Boyle / Douglas Murray
Marc-Edouard Vlasic / Brent Burns
Jason Demers / Jim Vandermeer
GOALTENDERS
Antti Niemi
wait this doesn't look right. They would never bench White!
Posted in the GDT already... I was experimenting with a script that shuffles an array and generates data randomly without duplicates, when it occurred to me that is exactly how the Koala chooses his lines.
Posted in the GDT already... I was experimenting with a script that shuffles an array and generates data randomly without duplicates, when it occurred to me that is exactly how the Koala chooses his lines.
So uh yeah, after clicking on that a few times I now realize that you are absolutely correct. Each one of those lineups looked like lineups I've seen in games.
Here's something that I'd like to discuss: Changing lineups for matchups.
For example, when we played Philly, who has one extremely dominant line (the Giroux line), we sent out Winnik-Marleau-Pavelski, and they shut down Giroux extremely effectively.
But, for another team that has lots of scoring depth and lines that aren't really loads better than each other, we can spread it out. So tread differently for all different teams.
With Vancouver, stick Winnik-Marleau-Pavelski on the Sedins and match JT with Kesler.
With Detroit, stick Winnik-Marleau-Pavelski on Datsyuk and leave Zetterberg to JT and Couture (can't have Cooch out against Dats)
With Chicago, stick Winnik-Marleau-Pavelski on Toews and co, and leave Hossa/Sharp to JT.
With Nashville, load up Marleau-Thornton-Pavelski to break down Suter/Weber (which they did very effectively last time we played, despite the score.
With St. Louis, load up Marleau-Thornton-Pavelski and go power on power with McDonald-Backes-Oshie and leave Couture to eat up Berglund and Perron.
With Phoenix, load up Marleau-Thornton-Pavelski against Hanzal and co, and let Couture eat up the soft comp.
With Dallas, put Thornton and Pavelski on Ribiero and Morrow and Ott, and let Marleau and Couture handle Eriksson and Benn (better skaters)
I don't know what about LA.
Thoughts, criticisms, anyone?
i can't remember or know who has been going head to head against the sedins this year, but who ever it has been needs to keep it up.
this year the sedins have been absolutely dominated by who ever is matched against them full time.
game 1, they got 1 pp goal and that was it.
game 2, they got 1 even strength goal between them (marleau, boyle, clowe, couture, vlasic on the ice for the sharks).
