With Porter Martone opting to play for Michigan State this upcoming season, Bill and Charlie of the PHLY Flyers Podcast discuss their ideal opening-night lineups for the Philadelphia Flyers when they travel to Florida for the season opener against the Panthers on Thursday, October 9th in this edition of THE SHOOTOUT.
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11 Comments
Dvorak will be our best Center % wise. How do you both have him at wing?
I think Zegras will ultimately fit better at LW.
Risto is out injured. It will be Zamula as 3rd D. You don’t know how good D is until 27-28 yo when they peak, or even later as top Defenders in the league are 30+.
Zamula is 25 and as D didn’t reach his peak yet.
What about Zegras on the left side of Couts and Michkov? Two creative player with a defensive minded center?
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This lineup has no 1st or 4th or whatever and is played by situation. Cates balances the defense with TZ and MM. Also Foerster is hurt in this timeline still. After he comes back he goes up with TZ/MM and Cates slides down next to Dvorak.
Devan Kaplan he's not better than Zayde Wisdom and Wisdom got more gritt for a fourth line
Top six are horrendous with Couts, Tippett and Zegras (waste). Our defense is bad. With our without Risto. And our goaltending is awful. Easily a bottom ten finish
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D-Lo 13th fwd.
Grebenkin goes to the ahl once Foerster returns. If Foerster starts season then he fits on line 2 – bump to line 4, Grebby to ahl. I think Cates is long term 3-4C but it’s almost a log jam at the moment.
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Juulsen as the 7th D. Trade Andrae – not a fan of him. Zamula is only in the lineup to help Mich.
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Well done, boys! Screen shotted that lineup so we can see how it matches up on opening night! 🏒
Have any teams ever taken two goalies and just said , “okay, outside of injury, you guys are just taking turns all year. One for Ersson and then one for Vladar” so like pressure free and keep both fresh and just do a straight 50-50? Obviously if one guy absolutely sucks you may have to change but I wonder what that would look like
Im team Bill on this one…i like his lines.