Ryan Smyth - Shawn Horcoff - Ryan Jones
Magnus Paajarvi - Eric Belanger - Sam Gagner
Taylor Hall - Ryan Hopkins - Jordan Eberle
Ben Eager - Anton Lander - Lennart PetrellLaco Smid - Tom Gilbert
Ryan Whitney - Corey Potter
Cam Barker - Andy Sutton
Sam Gagner draws in on the second line with Magnus Paajarvi and Eric Belanger and Linus Omark heads to the press box. The threatened benching of Hopkins is put off for at least one game.
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Derek Zona
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I have to admit Eager/Lander/Petrell is a cracking fourth line and Smyth/Horcoff/Jones is pretty solid too. If that’s the case then our discussions going forward are about the top six spots. I really hate to see Omark squeezed out, but if this team is defensively focused due to our weak back end, then he is indeed in trouble.
The team is defensively focused due to the third line not being able to play defense.
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Yeah. I kinda see that. I keep thinking the “third line” is our first line. Every color guy on every game continually refers to them as such.
Except that they play less minutes than the other two lines, don’t start in their own zone and don’t play the end of games. It’s the least first line-looking first line ever.
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Hall, Nugent-Hopkins, Eberle are like Penner, Getzlaf, and Perry in their rookie year, heavily protected by Carlyle.
The Horcoff line is the Paulson line.
And the Belanger or Gagner line (when Hemsky get back) is the Selanne line.
You are aware that the Oilers played other games than the one on Thursday?
ESTOI/G
Smyth – 16:17
Horcoff – 15:23
Hall – 14:01
Jones – 13:46
Nugent-Hopkins – 13:13
Eberle – 13:06
Belanger – 12:54
Paajarvi – 12:31
Omark – 11:46
Oh, and can you guess who’s received the least icetime in the last 2 minutes of the game between Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins, and Paajarvi?
And here are some other likely 3rd liners from around the NHL.
Player OZ%
H. Sedin – 76.9
D. Sedin – 74.6
Tavares – 74.3
Penner – 72.0
Semin – 64.9
Nash – 64.7
Duchene – 64.0
Lecavalier – 61.9
B. Richards – 60.5
Thornton – 59.6
Malkin – 58.3
M. Richards – 58.1
Toews – 58.0
P. Kane – 57.1
Spezza 57.1
by Double DD on Oct 22, 2011 4:02 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
So you’ve broken them down into individual categories rather than take them in sum, as I suggested. I’m not sure what this proves.
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Omark
Omark plays a pretty good game vs Minnesota, creating numerous chances, and pretty spirited on the forecheck. This gets him on the bench in favor of Petrell or Eager. I can see these guys bring about a different skill set, but I’d still rather have Omark even creating offense on the 4th line and PP than Petrell PK on the 4th, or Eager doing whatever Eager does.
Haven’t looked who has been better at even strength between Eager Petrell and Omark with advanced metrics, but unless Eager and Petrell show up better at evens, I think it makes the team worse by playing them over Omark.
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