Weird line-up at Christmas

Created by: d4rk1ll4

Team: 2019-20 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 22, 2019

Published: Sep. 22, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

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As I see right now, Claude Julien tries different lines. We all know that Domi and Drouin play well together, and CJ tried Gallagher-Domi recently. It would be a very dangerous, hard-working line.

Lehkonen - Danault - Suzuki is very unlikely, but we never know. This would be THE line to counter any offensive line. I think it would be one of the greatest 2-way lines in the league. We all know their defensive potential, but Suzuki has a lot of offensive skills, Danault had 53 points last year and I see Lehkonen score 20 goals this season.
Tatar on the 3rd line brings offensive. KK should get about 45 points and Byron has speed.
I see Poehling playing 10 minutes in MTL. He doesn't have to fight or whatever, will play with and against better players than at Laval and will learn a lot with NHL guys. Bouchard is a good defenseman coach, but he is not this good to coach forward. That 4th line has a 3rd line scoring potential (15 goals each), but will probably get 10 goals each, which is great.

Buyouts

Steve Mason: $1,366,667

Buried

Dale Weise: $1,275,000 ($2,350,000)
Matthew Peca: $225,000 ($1,300,000)
Karl Alzner: $3,550,000 ($4,625,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$81,500,000	$73,407,142	$0	$3,950,000	$8,092,858

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Drouin, Jonathan $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Domi, Max $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Lehkonen, Artturi $2,400,000$2,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $3,083,333$3,083,333 C UFA - 2	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 3
Tatar, Tomas $4,800,000$4,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Kotkaniemi, Jesperi $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 2	Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
Weal, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 C, RW, LW UFA - 2	Poehling, Ryan $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $2,600,000$2,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Cousins, Nick $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Thompson, Nate $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Mete, Victor $748,333$748,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Weber, Shea $7,857,143$7,857,143 RD UFA - 7	Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 7
Chiarot, Ben $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Petry, Jeff $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Kinkaid, Keith $1,750,000$1,750,000 G UFA - 1
Kulak, Brett $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Juulsen, Noah $863,333$863,333 ($175,000$175K) RD UFA - 1
Reilly, Mike $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Folin, Christian $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Sep. 23, 2019 at 1:35 a.m.

Billy739

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 6,590

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right now 2 lines have re-acquiring pairs
Domi-Lehkonen with Drouin and Gallagher rotating on wing from game to game
and
Danault-Tatar with Gallagher and Suzuki rotating on wing from game to game

based on the this and the break down down by the UNB who's been covering Habs advanced stats for almost 20 years i think we're looking at

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Drouin-Domi-Lehkonen

Suzuki could sneak in there but its hard to tell as basically the only 3 forwards he hasnt played with is Drouin , Domi and Armia at this point. that being said Suzuki stood out with Tatar and Danault while Gallagher stood out with Domi and Lehkonen as driving forces for our last 2 wins so an argument could be made for that line up if Suzuki continues to settle in but it would be at Drouin's expense .

Drouin's played with Tatar-Danault and Domi-Lehkonen thus far with no luck producing at either end of the ice the way he wants as per his post game interview the other day. I believe he'll end up with Kotkanemi -Armia due to Byron's injury but i think what starts as a make shift line could really work out for Drouin the way Kotkanemi's been battling infront of the net .

Cousins -Evans will make up your 4th line with Weal Hudon and Thompson fighting for that final spot until Byron returns and takes it .
Cousins and Evans are equipped to handle faceoffs its what they bring as battler's and goal scorers in those dirty area's infront of the goalie we want them for .

Tkachuk takes a run at our goalie and Jake Evans takes him down to the Ice No Questions Asked , No Hesitation .
We Need that cause god know Hudon nor Weal will ever bring that Fire

http://www.cs.unb.ca/~mwf/habs/season.html

Sep. 23, 2019 at 8:51 a.m.

TheDuminator

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Plz Tatar over Lehko!

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