Tonight, Tonight: Wherein to "Fly" is One Thing, But to "Jet" is Far More Awesome
by Bettman's Nightmare on Oct 27, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
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But the story's not over for the comparison between Mark Scheifele and Couturier, so we'll let the sleeping dogs lie. The more pertinent thing is this is another important game for the Jets, and we need to get some points to convince Claude Noel that these lines are actually working pretty well. Read: I will cry if he breaks up "BAK in the USSR" or Ladd's Little Wheeler. Yet supposedly it's not out of the question.
Jets
Forwards
#8 Alexander Burmistrov -- #80 Nik Antropov -- #9 Evander Kane
#16 Andrew Ladd -- #18 Bryan Little -- #13 Kyle Wellwood
#23 Kenndal McArdle -- #14 Tim Stapleton -- #26 Blake Wheeler
#15 Tanner Glass -- #19 Jim Slater -- #22 Chris Thorburn
Defencemen
#39 Tobias Enstrom -- #33 Dustin Byfuglien
#5 Mark Stuart -- #4 Zach Bogosian
#29 Johnny Oduya -- #12 Randy Jones
Goaltender
#31 Ondrej Pavelec
Flyers
Forwards
#19 Scott Hartnell -- #28 Claude Giroux -- #68 Jaromir Jagr
#17 Wayne Simmonds -- #48 Danny Briere -- #93 Jakub Voracek
#21 James van Riemsdyk -- #14 Sean Couturier -- #24 Matt Read
#15 Andreas Nodl -- #27 Maxime Talbot -- #45 Jody Shelley
Defencemen
#41 Andrej Meszaros -- #25 Matt Carle
#5 Braydon Coburn -- #44 Kimmo Timonen
#6 Andreas Lilja -- #8 Matt Walker
Goaltender
#30 Ilya Bryzgalov
New Player Nickname: "BAK in the USSR" for the Burmi-Antro-Kane line. You win, Fetch.
What To Do if You're Going to the Game: Wear a fanny pack, and pay for everything in coins from it (not hard if you're Canadian, but the game's in Philly).
Prediction: Flyers 7 to 1. And Couturier scores a goal just to rub it in. And then Holmgren sends him down to juniors for the coup de gras.
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Schenn has a broken foot. So Couturier will probably play 3C and Read shifts to wing, with Talbot at 4C and Nodl (or, heaven forbid, Rinaldo) on the wing.
Or something like that anyway; the lines have been a blur lately.
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Incidentally, while the lines are changing (both because they keep changing, and because Schenn will be out), here’s what they’ve done the last two games:
Hartnell-Giroux-Jagr // Simmonds-Briere-Schenn // vanRiemsdyk-Read-Voracek // Shelley-Couturier-Talbot
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Writer at Broad Street Hockey
Thanks, Eric
I was getting nothing helpful from the internets at the time, so I figured I’d just put that up there and see if anybody had heard better.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Oct 27, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
If you hadn’t kindly linked to my zone entry stuff, I’d post something snarky about timeonice.com.
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Which leads me to my next point
I’m lazy
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Oct 27, 2011 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Looks like Maxwell will be the scratch
and Stapleton will get in.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=3528
Also, it looks like Ladd’s Little Wheeler might be broken up as per this link.
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Stape has been flying the last couple games.
Maxwell has been better in the face off circle though. I suppose having Slater back will help to pick up our face off performance too though.
Not sure I like Stapleton and his size
going into Philly. But you are right, he has been flying and Noel had him out in the last minute on Monday. However, Maxwell has been good too.
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I wonder what the end game is with MacLean.
He is in a odd situation where he has to develop quickly, but he isn’t making it onto the ice every game. I don’t think he has played poorly, but I still have no idea where his ceiling is.
Can he make the team full time? If so what is his optimum role?
Honestly
He looks like line-filler right now. If there opens up a spot on the top 2 lines, I don’t think he gets it; I think Klingberg does.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Oct 27, 2011 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
What about Fehr?
I honestly don’t know where he lines up when he gets back. BAK in the USSR should be here to stay, and Ladd’s Little Wheeler as well. Is Fehr 3rd line material?
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Great thing about Fehr is he can backcheck just as much as he can score goals. Fitting into the lineup shouldn’t be a problem, it’s just where he fits in that’s questionable
In Canada our balls are bigger
by canadian texan on Oct 27, 2011 4:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes I win!
Also I decided calling it the Beatles line is acceptable as well.
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