Yep! You guys have it pretty well covered. Main point I was going to make is I think Jake makes more sense on the top line. They really shuffled a lot for Game 1. JvR to the 4th line. Jake to the 3rd. Farabee to the 1st (though he did play there for TB). I thought that kinda showed. Everything was a little bit off. Might’ve been a little more cohesive if they swapped Farabee/Jake.
Doesn’t sound like AV wants to change it up though so I guess we’ll see. He wants to spread things out a bit and get a little more depth to the scoring. If that’s the case, why not keep Jake at RW and keep JvR on the 3rd. JvR-Grant-Jake as a 3rd line would be absurd. NAK-Thompson-Pitlick makes good sense too.
But hey, we won and he’s probably coach of the year. So I’ll trust him. Makes me nervous though!
Doesn’t sound like AV wants to change it up though so I guess we’ll see. He wants to spread things out a bit and get a little more depth to the scoring. If that’s the case, why not keep Jake at RW and keep JvR on the 3rd. JvR-Grant-Jake as a 3rd line would be absurd. NAK-Thompson-Pitlick makes good sense too.
But hey, we won and he’s probably coach of the year. So I’ll trust him. Makes me nervous though!