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With Bell, Wellwood and Tucker all potentially back soon, how would you reconfigure the lines?

Bell/Sundin/Blake
Poni/Antro/Wellwood
Tucker/Stajan/Steen
Kilger/Pohl/Devereaux

Kubina-Kaberle
Mccabe- Cola
Gill-White

The trade over of Stralman, Woz, Gamache, Tlusty, and Bates for Wellwood, Bell, Coli, Tucker and McCabe should help the club.

I think we need to see Tlusty over a period of games to see if he can stick or if he should go back to the Marlies for more seasoning. I'd love to see him play well and stick, but he'd have to make one of the top three lines. I just can't see his talent getting six or seven minutes a night on a fourth line. One thing is there are plenty of options and bodies available. I don't remember the last time the Leafs have ever had a healthy line up though.

The-Insider wrote:With Bell, Wellwood and Tucker all potentially back soon, how would you reconfigure the lines?

Bell/Sundin/Blake
Poni/Antro/Wellwood
Tucker/Stajan/Steen
Kilger/Pohl/Devereaux

Kubina-Kaberle
Mccabe- Cola
Gill-White

The trade over of Stralman, Woz, Gamache, Tlusty, and Bates for Wellwood, Bell, Coli, Tucker and McCabe should help the club.

I think we need to see Tlusty over a period of games to see if he can stick or if he should go back to the Marlies for more seasoning. I'd love to see him play well and stick, but he'd have to make one of the top three lines. I just can't see his talent getting six or seven minutes a night on a fourth line. One thing is there are plenty of options and bodies available. I don't remember the last time the Leafs have ever had a healthy line up though.

Ya interesting dilemma...

Poni/Sundin/Blake
Bell/Wellwood/Antro
Kilger/Stajan/Steen
Tucker/Pohl/Devereaux
Bates

Kaberle/McCabe
Cola/Kabina
White/Gill
Woz

Stralman/Gamache/Tlusty return to the Malies (first to be brought up as an emergency replacement or if a trade is made)...

Notes-
Wellwood is a better face-off man than Antro but Bell is the unknown as a center and so is his face-off prowess, so I put him on the wing but if he is a good face-off man he could be a better fit at center, on one of the other lines, maybe on the third line and move Stajan to the wing.
Tucker has done little so far but to place him on the fourth line but he has been saying, that his knee injury was from training in the summer, so it could be the reason for his indifferent play.
McCabe seems to miss playing with Kaberle so I partnered him back with Kaberle and placed Cola and Kubina together.
Still interesting and I would like to see a Wellwood/Sundin/Blake line but Wellwood's centering abilities are needed and it would be a waste to put him on the wing but maybe for a power play shift or two...

I'd personally go with something like this....

Antropov/Sundin/Blake (if Antropov is off Center...he should be here)
Poni/Wellwood/Bell
Tlusty/Stajan/Steen
Tucker/Kilger/Deveraux

Pohl/Belak

Kaberle/Kubina
McCabe/Colaicovo
White/Gill
Walser

Vesa/Raycroft

jalenrose#5 wrote:I'd personally go with something like this....

Antropov/Sundin/Blake (if Antropov is off Center...he should be here)
Poni/Wellwood/Bell
Tlusty/Stajan/Steen
Tucker/Kilger/Deveraux

Pohl/Belak

Kaberle/Kubina
McCabe/Colaicovo
White/Gill
Walser

Vesa/Raycroft

I can't find one flaw with this lineup. Well done.

I would not move Antorpov to the first line in order to keep Kilger at centre.