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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 11, 2021 at 10:31 p.m.
Thread: Changes to opening lineup 21-22
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PuckYourself</b></div><div>I just completely disagree with the opening night lineup recently released. Bemstrom and Domi have done nothing to deserve their spots so i took them out. Domi sucks and Bemstrom is a bust. This is a case of Jackets management thinking they were high draft picks or look what they did 2 years ago we need to save face and not admit they are bad. Especially with Domi who we gave Josh Anderson for and can’t score or play solid D to save his life. I subbed in Stenlund as a 4th liner because at least he can bring some physicality to an already undersized roster versus pathetic Domi. Bemstrom can’t bury the puck and doesn’t have any grit on defense at all. He was dominant in the EU league and has shown no sign of a pulse since he got to North America a couple years ago now. He’s had his chances, time to move on</div></div>

You can’t be serious.
Stenlund is bad. And he plays like a noodle…very soft for a guy 6’4”. Domi started to really play much better the last 15 games last year. Domi was injured most of last year, he had shoulder surgery 4 months ago, and has worked his a&amp;&amp; off to return for the season opener. He is tough, and now motivated to play well. Bemstrom has the skill and has played much better than Texier over the last 2 years. Texier plays with an edge sometimes, but he disappears for long stretches of games.
Robinson, Kuraly, and 4th line will be key. They need to roll the F lines evenly and get scoring from the 3rd and 4th line to take pressure off of the 1st line and 5v5.
The 14 they have selected are the best choice to start the season. Chinakhov and Hoffman should sit for game #1.
The Jackets have a weak schedule in October. Most of the games are against non playoff teams and Seattle.
The first 8 games will be a good benchmark for them. The biggest problem they will have this season is keeping leads into the 3rd period, as they already have shown in preseason with this against Detroit Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
I think it will be fun to watch a more relaxed and fun group of young talent without Torts spewing out his bad joo-joo on the team. It got old. And he chased a lot of players out of town.
They just now need to build back chemistry. They were disjointed last year, gaps were too wide, and were not creating space off the puck for good passing lanes. Just were not in sync. This has already improved this preseason.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 23, 2021 at 9:24 p.m.
Thread: Lines with Patty
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ajp_18</b></div><div>My projected lines (doubt that they will even happen as torts changes lines a lot).

Grigorenko - Roslovic - Laine
Jenner - Texier - Bjorkstrand
Folingo - Domi - Atkinson
Robinson - Nash - Foudy
(Bremstrom, Gerbe, Stenlund and Koivu as the next players up)

Torts likes to role 4 lines, so there are 3 pretty even lines and a 4th line, but even the 4th line will get a decent amount of ice time.</div></div>

It’ll be a blender for the first few weeks.
It’ll probably be a couple weeks at least for Laine to get into the lineup.
I almost feel like Domi (and Atkinson) need all the help they can get now, being thrown into the spotlight (Domi), and Laine is a good passer to help bolster their play/numbers. (Laine can drive the play from the wing like Panarin was able to do). Also, Texier has shown he is effective at the pivot, more so than Foudy right now.
And Jenner is more effective at LW where he can crash &amp; bang on the forecheck. How about:

Laine Domi Atkinson
Jenner Texier. Bjorkstrand
Foligno. Roslovic. Grigorenko
Foudy Nash/Koivu Robinson/Gerbe