Expected Line-Up for Tomorrow's game

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Cowen again, huh, that's great. The rest gonna need to be sorted out tomorrow.

I think Carkner is playing forward - if I read that correctly.

TSN has the practice lines as:

Michalek - Spezza - Alfredsson
Foligno - Shannon - Kovalev
Cheechoo - Regin - Fisher
Ruutu - Neil - Kelly
Donovan - Z Smith - Schubert

Defencemen:

Phillips - Volchenkov
Kuba - Karlsson
Carkner - Campoli
Picard - Lee
Cowen

Goaltenders:
Leclaire
Elliott
Brodeur

That looks like a pretty good lineup to me, should be a good game

We're so close to finalizing everything. Pretty exciting.

Of the forwards announced to play:

Expected Ottawa lineup: Forwards – Milan Michalek, Mike Fisher, Jason Spezza, Chris Kelly, Chris Neil, Ryan Shannon, Alex Kovalev, Jonathan Cheechoo, Peter Regin, Zack Smith, Nick Foligno, Jarkko Ruutu. Defense – Chris Phillips, Chris Campoli, Filip Kuba, Matt Carkner, Jared Cowen, Brian Lee, Erik Karlsson. Goaltenders – Brian Elliott, Mike Brodeur

Michalek - Spezza - Cheechoo
Kovalev - Regin - Shannon
Foligno - Kelly - Fisher
Ruutu - Z.Smith - Neil

Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Campoli
Lee - Cowen/Carkner

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Cheechoo on the third line already huh?

shabbs wrote:Cheechoo on the third line already huh?

Can't be yet. I like the Foligno - Regin - Fisher line - which means there will be room for Cheechoo top six hopefully. He needs a passer like Kovalev or Spezza to get back on track.

SpezDispenser wrote:We're so close to finalizing everything. Pretty exciting.

Of the forwards announced to play:

Expected Ottawa lineup: Forwards – Milan Michalek, Mike Fisher, Jason Spezza, Chris Kelly, Chris Neil, Ryan Shannon, Alex Kovalev, Jonathan Cheechoo, Peter Regin, Zack Smith, Nick Foligno, Jarkko Ruutu. Defense – Chris Phillips, Chris Campoli, Filip Kuba, Matt Carkner, Jared Cowen, Brian Lee, Erik Karlsson. Goaltenders – Brian Elliott, Mike Brodeur

Michalek - Spezza - Cheechoo
Kovalev - Regin - Shannon
Foligno - Kelly - Fisher
Ruutu - Z.Smith - Neil

Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Campoli
Lee - Cowen/Carkner

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I would expect to see Foligno-Shannon-Kovalev, which likely puts Kelly on Regin's left side with Fish on the right. Whoever this is has one too many players listed. Probably Neil, Ruutu, or one of the top-6. I would assume Carkner, Smith, Cowen, Campoli, and Lee are getting one last look. Again its interesting that Picard is left out.

Cheechoo will not---I repeat: will NOT---play on the 1st line. I don't know why you guys are so adamant about this.

Elliott will be in net and is expected to get the full 60min.

No Hedman.

Is Mez in the lineup? I'm interested to see how he performs in his 2nd year there. (More so now that he's in my pool ).

Nope. The line-up Tampa is icing is somewhat pathetic.

Forwards – Brandon Bochenski, Ryan Craig, Steve Downie, Todd Fedoruk, Adam Hall, Martins Karsums, Brett McLean, Drew Miller, Juraj Simek, Paul Szczechura, Dana Tyrell, James Wright. Defense – Kurtis Foster, Lukas Krajicek, Matt Lashoff, Matt Smaby, Matt Walker, Ty Wishart. Goaltenders – Antero Niittymaki, Riku Helenius.

I suspect we'll have to go with a Phillips - Cowen pairing to try to shut down Bochenski.

It's in Saskatchewan, eh? Is this game televised?

CCgotITcovered wrote:I would expect to see Foligno-Shannon-Kovalev, which likely puts Kelly on Regin's left side with Fish on the right. Whoever this is has one too many players listed. Probably Neil, Ruutu, or one of the top-6. I would assume Carkner, Smith, Cowen, Campoli, and Lee are getting one last look. Again its interesting that Picard is left out.

Cheechoo will not---I repeat: will NOT---play on the 1st line. I don't know why you guys are so adamant about this.

The good news here is that there isn't a top line - with the exception of Spezza being above any other center we have (passing wise). If Cheechoo gets on line 2, he'll have Kovalev passing to him, but...not exactly two of the speediest players.

asq2 wrote:Nope. The line-up Tampa is icing is somewhat pathetic.

Forwards – Brandon Bochenski, Ryan Craig, Steve Downie, Todd Fedoruk, Adam Hall, Martins Karsums, Brett McLean, Drew Miller, Juraj Simek, Paul Szczechura, Dana Tyrell, James Wright. Defense – Kurtis Foster, Lukas Krajicek, Matt Lashoff, Matt Smaby, Matt Walker, Ty Wishart. Goaltenders – Antero Niittymaki, Riku Helenius.

I suspect we'll have to go with a Phillips - Cowen pairing to try to shut down Bochenski.

Mr Downie better be careful with Smith Neil and possibly Carkner on the ice tomorrow he may want to keep a low profile we still remember last year that dirty hit