Edited Apr. 15, 2023 at 6:02 p.m.
Quoting: GarthBrooks
LOL now im questioning if u even watch leafs games. Holmberg plays centre, he played on the 4th line for the leafs early this year. I'm saying if Holmberg is centering the 4th line, Robertson on his wing could work. Recently when Keefe was jumbling the lines there was a line of Lafferty-Matthews-Kerfoot and then loaded up the 2nd line with Jarnkrok-Tavares-Marner and Nylander on the 3rd line. Im saying those two boys beside matthews should never see minutes with matthews. Why were they there? Because Bunting got demoted to the 4th line. It seems like Keefe doesn't trust his wingers. So Im saying why not get some wingers he can trust maybe some established wingers rather than younger guys that can play all over the lineup. Robertson is adding to that problem is my point. Instead of making ROR the priority like a lot of leafs fans want why not fix this problem. Is this not a problem that Nylander sometimes plays on the 3rd line and Bunting plays in the bottom 6 for guys who played 4th line minutes in the games prior played 8 minutes.
Keefe experiments but that does not mean those are the set lines. All coaches mix and match lines when they want to drive some offense in the middle of a game. As there is nothing wrong with spreading out offense
Once Robertson comes back for next season he will probs be slotted in with JT and Marner or O'Rielly (if extended) and a new 3RW as that is where he has has all his success. Look up statistics before posting as Robertson-JT-Marner was pretty good together.
Robertson is not built for the 4th line nor should he play there.
Simple
As shown with my lines above that will be how things probs go unless someone like McMann or Steeves impresses
To end it off this is where things should be come 2023-2024
Jarnkrok-Matthews-Nylander
Robertson-JT-Marner
Knies-ROR-New 3RW (Take your pick of Brown, Dadonov, Drouin (cheap deal), Tatar, Barbashev, Johansson, potential trade, etc.)
Lafferty-Holmberg-Acciari
McCabe-Brodie
Rielly-Liligren
Gio-Timmins
Samsonov
Woll