No way adelkader gets scratched. He’s the alternate captain on the team and there has to be another leader on the ice other than Kronwall. If anything scratch glendening

You're right about Abby. I should've switched him and Frk. I missed that before publishing. It wouldn't be Glenny though. He's too valuable as a fourth liner.

I think its a combination of frk and helm and Glendening being scratched based on need and injuries. who knoiws about the lines. they are going to be mix and match looking for offense on this goal challenged teams. its hard to believe that group of forwards is the strength of this team. the blue line is just terrible. they dont have a top pair guy and you can argue they dont have a guy whos even a second pair guy. its a giant whole hole of wasted salary. id like to see hicketts and cholo and hronek all get ice time.

While I mostly agree, I do see the defense as slightly better. Green, Daley, and DeKeyser are second-line defensemen. I'd have a harder time arguing if any of them are a third defenseman over fourth though.

The biggest problem with both the offense and defense is the lack of a single star. They have plenty of primary to secondary scorers in offense but not the one or two that are putting up the big numbers - the elite of the team so to say. They have defensemen that can put in a solid supporting role or good defensive games here or there, but they don't have an offensive specialist or great shutdown defender. It's a team of good-ok-subpar and lacking that elite-good-ok-couple of fringe makeup that's needed to be successful. Last description: great depth but no standouts.