Volcanologist
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so who is playing Marner's minutes now?? this Minestrone guy we found in a dumpster?
2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening
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LeafGm
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Whoever proves to be the best fit on that line.
I mean, when the #1 line already has the highest-paid player in the game at center and an $8M Matthew Knies at left wing, in theory you should be able to put the reanimated corpse of Jonas Hoglund at right wing and still have that line produce at an elite level.
If not, then we’re proper fucked.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
No one, and everyone. One of Domi, Maccelli or even Robbie will get 5v5 minutes with Matthews to see what sticks. Willy probably gets a few shifts at 5v5 with Matthews whenever we're down a goal and in general gets another minute a game. Mitch's PK minutes will get distributed out (Lorentz & Laughton were our best PK'ers by xGA last year fwiw). Knies actually had better PK nerdies and results than Mitch, so he probably keeps getting minutes. Nic Roy probably gets some of them as well.
Overall, Mitch's minutes will just be sprinkled out to a bunch of different people. Someone like Maccelli or Robbie might be ~16 minutes a night on Matthew's wing to soak up most of them though.
Overall, Mitch's minutes will just be sprinkled out to a bunch of different people. Someone like Maccelli or Robbie might be ~16 minutes a night on Matthew's wing to soak up most of them though.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Matthews numbers w-w/o Marner kind of suggest that it really doesn't matter who we replace Marner with, the 1st line is going to be fine.
What this does though, is removes the 1st line security blanket for the games Auston is out of the lineup for. If you get 70-75 games out of Auston, you're doing pretty okay in most years. Those ~10 games are going to be a bit more of a slog now, short of a few people busting out this year.
LeafOfFaith
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Cowan time.