For those worried about who would play where if we signed Stamkos...
If we did sign Stamkos & there wasn't the chemistry there with him & Eichel together (with whichever one of them on the wing)...
Pittsburgh is showing how u can have your best 3 forwards split up on 3 different lines & they all get their icetime
Crosby, Malkin & Kessel all on different lines, all got over 18min of icetime
And their 4th line all got over 10min of icetime each as well
so there's multiple ways to make it work
No need to worry about that aspect of signing Stamkos
- jdfitz77
So....
_____ -Eichel- Reinhart
_____ -STAMKOS- Ennis
Kane -O'Reilly- _____
Foligno-Larsson-Gionta
Hell yes I'm alright with that
Think of all the guys we have coming up that could potentially fill in those blanks
Fasching, Bailey, Baptiste, Rodrigues, Hurley, Cornel, Olofsson, Possler, Carrier, Catenacci, Karabacek, Malone, Estephan...
All those guys rated as "top9" or better talents
So we only need a couple of them to work out
And that's keeping Foligno & Larsson on the 4th line & not accounting for Girgensons anywhere
And what if we signed Vesey &/or Caggiula?
YEAH...
I'm REALLY liking what I see here quite a bit