Confirmed by Mendes and others. Regin in for Konopka tonight. Will play with Foligno and Alfie. He will not take draws but I don't know if that means he or Foligno will be playing the centre position after the faceoff is taken.
Also Filatov is a healthy scratch again. Carkner in for Gonchar (out day to day).
Foligno should be the center. I don't remember Regin every producing at center in the nhl. Foligno is right now. Only time regin produced was on spezza's wing from what I remember.
Confirmed by Mendes and others. Regin in for Konopka tonight. Will play with Foligno and Alfie. He will not take draws but I don't know if that means he or Foligno will be playing the centre position after the faceoff is taken.
Also Filatov is a healthy scratch again. Carkner in for Gonchar (out day to day).
Confirmed by Mendes and others. Regin in for Konopka tonight. Will play with Foligno and Alfie. He will not take draws but I don't know if that means he or Foligno will be playing the centre position after the faceoff is taken.
Also Filatov is a healthy scratch again. Carkner in for Gonchar (out day to day).
Foligno should be the center. I don't remember Regin every producing at center in the nhl. Foligno is right now. Only time regin produced was on spezza's wing from what I remember.
Centering Foligno and Kovalev too. Unfortunately, Clouston didn't like when players were producing together so he had to shuffe them around.
Centering Foligno and Kovalev too. Unfortunately, Clouston didn't like when players were producing together so he had to shuffe them around.
I'm not a Filatov fan so he wouldn't be in my line up & I would rather ease Regin back into the lineup by placing him as the 3rd line centre. Z. Smith has shown he can all kinds of situations, why not give him a shot on the 2nd line, he could do some of the dirty work that Greening does for the 1st line.
Greening - Spezza - Michalek - big line with a little bit of everything
Z. Smith - Foligno - Alfredson - a couple of tough guys with skill to protect their captain
Condra - Regin - Butler - Regin's skill could help this line produce too
Konopka - Winchester - Neil/Daugavins - the ***** line, cause havoc with other teams players
Filatov - my guess he is back in Russia next yr along with Semin.
I like Regin but it's short sighted to bring him back before he's fully healed. If the guy can't take faceoffs, it tells me he's a bad hit or an awkward fall away from being out again.
I like Regin but it's short sighted to bring him back before he's fully healed. If the guy can't take faceoffs, it tells me he's a bad hit or an awkward fall away from being out again.
It is common place for a center to not take faceoffs for sometime after returning from such an injury.
Yeah because Spezza has had the same shoulder operated on numerous times, and dislocates when someone breathes on it.
No, but he does have a chronic back injury and a shoulder injury which has caused him to miss on average 20 games in the last two seasons. Probably a safe bet he'll get injured and sit this season as well.
