Why is Reinhart and Olofsson on the third line and Ruotsalainen and Thompson in the top 6?

To create 3 good lines and give Cozens quality players to play with.

What if Thompson hits the Schneid again and Ruots isn't an NHLer?

then we make adjustments. In creating a balanced line up, I like Thompson as a guy that can keep up with Eichel/Hall, has size and theoretically can finish.

Ruotsalainen is well rounded and a play maker, Staal and Skinner can both score

Reinhart and Olofsson have chemistry and give Cozens players that can help him adjust to the NHL. Reinhart and Olofsson still on PP1

Interesting. Never know with Krueger if all the chips fall but we'll see how he handles it. I wouldn't it for sure.

My guess is by game 8, cozens will be sitting because tobias reider was good at killing penalties once.

i dont have much faith in krueger.

Yeah same here. Rieder should be an extra.

I have ZERO faith in Krueger.
I know I have said this many times but I will repeat, Vesey, Montour, Miller, Okposo, Sheary, Rodrigues, Hutton and Skinner all had career worse season last year.
If the team made the preliminaries, that could explained, but they actually did worse than the previous year after adding Jokiharju, Miller, Johansson and Vesey.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if Hall came here BECAUSE of Krueger, all is forgiven, let's move on.

I think It's safe to say Hall came here because he wanted to light it up with Eichel, $8M was better than the other offers, and he could easily get more money next year since there will be more certainty. Krueger was a chip he used to make it sound like he wanted to come here. I don't buy it. He would've signed longer.