I wasn't expecting you to keep Tennyson over Kulikov and Butcher.

Butcher hasn't played all year. It was tough between Tennyson and Kulikov but I think Tennyson played better with Smith

Kulikov has been logging big minutes next to Severson, Im assuming Ruff likes that pair, but who knows what he is thinking.

Tennyson has been a solid compliment to Smith, in their rather limited roles, so I get that, but you have to wonder of he survives Vats return. I'd be really surprised, but Ruff has stuck with this pair so far....

Butcher is not my cup of tea. He can sit.

Nooooooo tennyson has to sit. His advanced stats are awful even though his +/- is really good. Kulikov has been much better, put him with sevo and put sami with ty

Where do you find his advanced stats? Sami and Ty won't work since they are both undersized offensive defensemen. What about

Murray-PK
Smith-Sevo
Kulikov-Vat

Yeah pretty much anything is fine as long as tennyson isn't playing. If you look on twitter a lot of guys post analytics there. Basically the devils get heavily outshot and outpossessed whenever tennyson is on the ice, the only reason his +/- is good is because of great goaltending.