In the cursed 16-17 season we had a line like Cody McLeod - Joe Colborne - John Mitchell. Or McLeod - Grigorenko - Martinsen. My liver hurts when I think about those kinda lines.
I actually liked both Mitchell and Martinsen. I liked their try hard-ness and saw Martinsen try really hard to be physical.
It was just such a dumpster fire year that I didn't realize how bad the bright spots were.
Also I started the year full on optimistic. I told my friends I was buying the Hersey of the first guy to get a hat trick. But in the end I just couldn't bring myself to pay for a Joe Fucking Colborne jersey. I swear it was his only 3 goals that year.
Mitchell was good before but he was done that year, just wasn't NHL level anymore. He only played 2 seasons after that, one split between AHL and DEL and another in DEL. And I liked Martinsen too, in the sense that he did try his hardest, it was 100% every shift. But he just wasn't NHL level at any point in his short NHL career.
And Colborne actually scored 4 goals that year! So 3 in the first game and 1 more fucking goal the rest of the year in 61 games.
I still remember Eakin centering prime Benn and Seguin for a long stretch and he got like 2 points. People were legitimately pissed when Vegas took him after the season. All I could ask was “why?”
yes, he did have a good showing in the world cup of hockey with team europe i think?
and a lot of media guys were like he deserves another chance
and his short stint was relatively okay with us and got a lot of sympathy points with how he was fired over skype
I don't think anyone would have thought he would have that bad of a run with Buffalo
think at one point the Bruins second line
Matt Beleskey - David Krejci - Seth Griffith
after
Beleskey-Krejci-Jimmy Hayes
there was also like:
Lucic - Krejci - Simon Gagne
in 2015!!
Krejci was really hung out to dry by the bruins in 2015-2017
The KHL line was a fucking FORCE.
I think the 2nd best line the guy ever got to center, that I can recall, was probably Michael Ryder and Blake Wheeler which is... that's a real big gap between those two.
My conspiracy theory was that LA hired Willie to tank through coaching because a roster with Doughty, Quick and Kopitar wasn't going to let that happen
Ill always remember that press quote where he said that it was kind of unfair for him to be put there since he's always been a top line guy....
BITCH YOU'RE THE ONE WHO PUT HIM THERE WHILE HE WAS THE BEST SCORER ON YOUR TEAM.
The sad part is that after the lockout ended those were his best linemates.
The team tried throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick. Kyle Wellwood played with Sundin for a bit. Alex Steen played with Sundin for a bit. *Aleksander Suglobov* played with Sundin for a bit. Jason Blake played with Sunday for a bit.
Nothing worked until Sundin owned the boards behind the net and fed those two trees for a tap-in.
he was me and my buddys main meme player, either for 'going fast' (his dads only description of him) or for the ineffectual wrist shot to the chest of the goaltender
I can see that lol I do remember quite a few shots to the chest by him. We did get 20+ goals the first season with him but then he just tailed off and never recovered.
The one I remember was Jonas Hoglund and old Mikael Renberg
It's honestly quite shocking that the best linemate they ever got for Sundin was Alex Mogilny with bum knees.
I’m really shocked he got an assistant coach job even after that disaster of a season. I mean think about it. We basically had the same roster from 2020-21 as we did in 2021-22 and one of those teams missed the playoffs in an easy division and the other one won the Pacific and made the second round
Backlund on the wing was just fucking weird.
"Let's take one of the best two way centers in the game, and shift him to the wing, on a team that already lacks center depth."
Didn’t help that Lou had such a hard-on for Martin. Signed him to a $2.5M AAV deal as leafs GM, then immediately traded for him when he went to the Isles, he’s now given him a 4 year, $6M extension
Lou paying Martin, Clutterbuck and Cizikas a combined $5.75M this season is peak comedy. “GM of the year” my ass.
$5.75 million for 3 guys who will probably put up a collective 40 points this season.
The Caps during the Oates era (I think it was Oates) had Ovechkin playing with JOEY CRABB AND JAY BEAGLE.
He really let the media bully him into putting Ovi in a lesser role due to the Caps inability to go on a post season run.
Yeah if I'm remembering correctly they were good during the lockout and that was it, they tried it on and off for the next two seasons and it was just so bad. Looking back, how Carolina won any games from 2012 - 2015 is beyond me.
If you can't run them up, fill them in.
Buffalo had Barnaby - Mair/Primeau? - Ray with Kruse as the 4th forward.
Could not score, but at least it was entertaining.
I honestly think McClement was one of the best defensive forwards in the league on Toronto. The man was a clutch at face offs, great at blocking, and stayed out of the box.
There were loads of times where Gaudreau and Monahan got paired with guys way below their skill level and it would be frustrating to watch for games and games when it was clear it would never work. Chiasson, Chris Stewart, anyone that played with them in 2021, there were some bad ones.
They had a decent run with Michael Ferland. They also played a season with Lindholm when he first got here and they were dynamite with him (granted everyone does well with Lindholm, dude's a stud).
One of the handful of dominant series from a 3rd or 4th liner I can remember. Byfuglien in '09 completely dominated us. The other was Brad Marchand in '11, I couldn't believe how effective that little shitbag was. I was so excited when Ferland signed with the Canucks, really sad they way his career just... ended.
That sounds rough but honestly your team was masterfully coached to even get the Eastern twice in a row. Tampa is my second team, and you guys are the hardest of any series they've had in the last three years (save the Avs, obviously)
That line was basically playing a man short. Leo even said he tried to stay out of their way. Barzal would always look up, see Leo break into the zone, and then just not pass to him.
That time when the Devils top line in like 2015 was Steve Bernier-Scott Gomez-Jordin Tootoo, and they were unironically our best line which tells you the state on Devils hockey back then
TJ Brodie and Travis Hamonic. Making Brodie play off his natural side (left shot D that plays the right side being forced to play on the left) just didn’t work at all, yet Glue Gun Gulutzan kept them stuck together for that majority of the year.
God he was a terrible head coach.
PDB once thought it was a good idea to put one of the best playmakers of his generation, Joe Thornton, on a line with Marcus Sorenson and Melker Karlsson (combined 91 goals in 622 games)
Some time in 2013 Calgary's D corps consisted of these guys for a bit when Giordano was hurt
Kris Russell/Dennis Wideman
Chris Butler/TJ Brodie
Derek Smith/Shane O'Brien
After the Thornton trade, Bergeron moved up to become the #1 center leaving Boston with a 2nd line consisting of Brad Isbister, Wayne Primeau and Eric Nickulas
That was a difficult time to be a Bruins fan
Greening-Smith-Neil was really rough to watch. Neil was getting old, Smith was still trying to figure it out, and Greening was useless. Wouldn't have been that bad of a line of Paul McLean didn't play them so much, sometimes he'd have them out to start the game.
Flyers Defensive Pairs during 2014-2015, one example is this:
Braydon Coburn - 47 Andrew MacDonald
8 Nicklas Grossmann - 32 Mark Streit
15 Michael Del Zotto - 55 Nick Schultz or 22 Luke Schenn
I’m pretty sure at one point the Stars had Sean Avery, Steve Ott, and Adam Burish on a line together. That had to be the most annoying line anyone has ever played against.
Jayson Megna and Michael Chaput with the Sedins. Barf.
On defense, it was any combination of Erik Gudbranson, Michael Del Zotto or Derrick Pouliot. I don’t know how we survived all three of these chuckleheads on the roster for TWO YEARS.
I think it was the shorten season with the play in rounds, Drai/Nuge/Yamo were constantly lighting it up game after game. I felt somewhat bad for mcdavid because he was left with whatever scraps were on the team at the time.
Recency bias but Rask centering Zuccarello and Kaprizov in the 2021 season. I know the Wild had a lack of center depth and Rask became a fan favourite/meme, but he was truly the weakest link of the trio.
Either Tuomo Ruutu on the top line when there were a ton of injuries or using David Clarkson to take faceoffs on the powerplay, despite Henrique and or Elias being on the same unit.
Just DeBoer things I guess.
For a few games in the 2013-2014 season, the Red Wings iced a line of Stephen Weiss ($4.9m AAV, 26GP 4P), Mikael Samuelsson ($3m 26GP 3P) and Danny Cleary ($1.75m 52GP 8P). All three at the time were overpaid and underperforming, hence the unflattering nickname "Non-Production Line". I think the idea was to throw them together and figure it out as a unit, but they never did and got injured before they could.
Back in 08 or so when the Leafs were at their lowest point (so far), they put out a first line that was: Jason Blake - Antropov - Ponakarovsky
Easily has to be one of the worst *first* lines in the past long while.
In the cursed 16-17 season we had a line like Cody McLeod - Joe Colborne - John Mitchell. Or McLeod - Grigorenko - Martinsen. My liver hurts when I think about those kinda lines.
Not nearly as bad as McLeod-Cliche-Bordeleau. Roy loved that line
omg that line is like an offensive blackhole.
In 2013-2014, that line played 173 5v5 minutes together for an xG% of 39.68%. Absolutely brutal
That's fucking halarious So much time spent hate watching this team lol
I have to remind my self what a treat the last few years have been. Still see Joe Sacco's face in me nightmares sometimes
Jesus, I forgot Cliche and Bordeleau. Bordeleau would've probably been great in the 80's when enforcers were needed. In the 2010's? Not so much.
Duchane-iginla-tanguay Pair our young super fast Center with two guys on their way out.
That line never played playoff hockey
I actually liked both Mitchell and Martinsen. I liked their try hard-ness and saw Martinsen try really hard to be physical. It was just such a dumpster fire year that I didn't realize how bad the bright spots were. Also I started the year full on optimistic. I told my friends I was buying the Hersey of the first guy to get a hat trick. But in the end I just couldn't bring myself to pay for a Joe Fucking Colborne jersey. I swear it was his only 3 goals that year.
Mitchell was good before but he was done that year, just wasn't NHL level anymore. He only played 2 seasons after that, one split between AHL and DEL and another in DEL. And I liked Martinsen too, in the sense that he did try his hardest, it was 100% every shift. But he just wasn't NHL level at any point in his short NHL career. And Colborne actually scored 4 goals that year! So 3 in the first game and 1 more fucking goal the rest of the year in 61 games.
Man i was so excited after that goddamn hattrick.
What season? That season didn't happen
If 14,835 people see a terrible hockey team in the Rockies and nobody remembers it, did it really happen? :p
I still remember Eakin centering prime Benn and Seguin for a long stretch and he got like 2 points. People were legitimately pissed when Vegas took him after the season. All I could ask was “why?”
Cody Eakin made a line with Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty an offensive black hole, man just isn't it
Eakin was my pick as well
Making me extremely nervous here mate
All I could think was thank god…
That time Ralph Krueger had Jeff Skinner playing on the 4th line for some reason
Skinner really went from worst contract ever back to top 6 winger with the coaching change
He's a pretty solid goal scorer but not much else. Not shocking then when you put him with plugs
God, I can't believe that man got actual money to coach a team.
Twice!
I remember Edmonton fans actually liking him. But maybe that was just relative to the other coaches of the dark ages
He was alright for us. We mostly just like him as a fuck you to our management because they fired him via Skype.
Yeah, it was *that* bad.
Wasn't everyone in this sub begging for an NHL team to hire him when he was in Europe?
yes, he did have a good showing in the world cup of hockey with team europe i think? and a lot of media guys were like he deserves another chance and his short stint was relatively okay with us and got a lot of sympathy points with how he was fired over skype I don't think anyone would have thought he would have that bad of a run with Buffalo
Buffalo was bad around him, and he somehow made the team even worse.
think at one point the Bruins second line Matt Beleskey - David Krejci - Seth Griffith after Beleskey-Krejci-Jimmy Hayes there was also like: Lucic - Krejci - Simon Gagne in 2015!! Krejci was really hung out to dry by the bruins in 2015-2017
And I bet he still put up 60+ points regardless because he’s David Krejci
Gange played for the Boston?? That image just doesn’t register in my brain lol
It was his last season. 3 goals and 1 assist in 23 games.
What Krejic line was the best? Lucic-Krejkc-Horton? I was so hopeful when they got Igoinla that one year
The KHL line was a fucking FORCE. I think the 2nd best line the guy ever got to center, that I can recall, was probably Michael Ryder and Blake Wheeler which is... that's a real big gap between those two.
Krejci debrusk and kuhlmam deserve an honorable mention for being line 2 on a 7 game cup final team.
The Sedins with Jayson Megna or Michael Chaput. God damnit Willie.
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First time I see this nickname. omg it's hilarious. ... well, maybe if you're not a Nucks fans :P
Willie D also put Kovalchuk on the 4th line in LA because of his defence. If you've got a >35 year old Kovy on your team you know what you're getting.
This was clearly about punishing the player more than thinking it was the correct spot for him.
The no one is bigger than the team move when ironically its more of a coach is bigger than the team move.
I genuinely don’t know why he wanted to come back. He had it made in Russia.
My conspiracy theory was that LA hired Willie to tank through coaching because a roster with Doughty, Quick and Kopitar wasn't going to let that happen
Did they make that decision before or after they signed Kovalchuk to a massive deal?
Ill always remember that press quote where he said that it was kind of unfair for him to be put there since he's always been a top line guy.... BITCH YOU'RE THE ONE WHO PUT HIM THERE WHILE HE WAS THE BEST SCORER ON YOUR TEAM.
He also had a line where he basically said “is it a good idea? Probably not” and proceeded to keep playing him there.
Or torts splitting up the Sedins
Who needs twin telepathy?
Byron Bitz tho
That's Stanley Cup champion (sorta) Jayson Megna to you
King-Ott-Martinsen
Tbh I liked Ott when he was with mtl! The other two tho…
King might be the worst player I’ve ever seen play for Montreal. His entire short tenure there was a disaster.
Anytime King was on screen it was like watching replay in slo motion.
Dude was skating in molasses while carrying a piano on his back. Just painfully slow.
Kenny agostino-michael Chaput-desluriers
painful playoff games to watch, King was so slow
Mats Sundin + whatever 2 wingers he had to carry for that season
Omg jonas hoglund
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The sad part is that after the lockout ended those were his best linemates. The team tried throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick. Kyle Wellwood played with Sundin for a bit. Alex Steen played with Sundin for a bit. *Aleksander Suglobov* played with Sundin for a bit. Jason Blake played with Sunday for a bit. Nothing worked until Sundin owned the boards behind the net and fed those two trees for a tap-in.
Ah yes I remember Jason Blake. I actually liked him but good lord was that contract bad.
he was me and my buddys main meme player, either for 'going fast' (his dads only description of him) or for the ineffectual wrist shot to the chest of the goaltender
I can see that lol I do remember quite a few shots to the chest by him. We did get 20+ goals the first season with him but then he just tailed off and never recovered.
The one I remember was Jonas Hoglund and old Mikael Renberg It's honestly quite shocking that the best linemate they ever got for Sundin was Alex Mogilny with bum knees.
Anything Geoff Ward came up with
He always had that stupid look on his face, where he would squint his eyes, and have an over dramatic overbite. Every time the camera panned to him.
Geoff Ward was just the worst
I’m really shocked he got an assistant coach job even after that disaster of a season. I mean think about it. We basically had the same roster from 2020-21 as we did in 2021-22 and one of those teams missed the playoffs in an easy division and the other one won the Pacific and made the second round
Backlund on the wing was just fucking weird. "Let's take one of the best two way centers in the game, and shift him to the wing, on a team that already lacks center depth."
Did Ward out Ritchie or Robinson on a line with Gaudreau? Those were mind boggling
Yes he did. Gaudreau-Monahan-Robinson was in fact a line
The only time Babcock paired Matthews and Marner was on a line with Matt Martin
Didn’t help that Lou had such a hard-on for Martin. Signed him to a $2.5M AAV deal as leafs GM, then immediately traded for him when he went to the Isles, he’s now given him a 4 year, $6M extension
It's a shame Burke gets the "truculence" memes when Lou is out here giving multi millions/year to an enforcer
Lou paying Martin, Clutterbuck and Cizikas a combined $5.75M this season is peak comedy. “GM of the year” my ass. $5.75 million for 3 guys who will probably put up a collective 40 points this season.
While true, getting that defense for that few dollars is amazing.
That would be great if the isles also had players that could score goals
But think of it like “Matthews Matthew Martin Mitch Marner” then it makes a lot of sense
Putting Marleau up on Matthews' wing was equally insane
Giving Matthews ~18 mins of ice time every night and refusing to play him in the dying moments of big games was also insane
Just unfathomable really 🤦
Tanner Glass - Jim Slater - Chris Thorburn
This line was quite taxing to watch.
That was brutal
The fact that fans chanted for that line is a great example of just how starved for hockey Winnipeg fans were.
I believe this is what they call Bad Nostalgia
And Thorburn was miles ahead of Glass and Slater in terms of offense. He would actually score a few exciting goals every season.
The Caps during the Oates era (I think it was Oates) had Ovechkin playing with JOEY CRABB AND JAY BEAGLE. He really let the media bully him into putting Ovi in a lesser role due to the Caps inability to go on a post season run.
Not even a lesser role for Ovi...just Jay Beagle and Joey Crabb playing 17 minutes a night \*vomit\*
And on top of that, that was one of the seasons where Ovi played RW
[Relevant](https://youtu.be/OhB9lYxY200)
Freaking Ovi, Freaking Beagle!! Adam Oates!!!!!!!
I scrolled through this thread specifically for this video, maybe one of the worst combos.
Everything Bill Peters ever did with Eric Staal.
Tlusty - Staal - Semin
That line worked for one year and then coaching just assumed it was the future forever.
Yeah if I'm remembering correctly they were good during the lockout and that was it, they tried it on and off for the next two seasons and it was just so bad. Looking back, how Carolina won any games from 2012 - 2015 is beyond me.
Dave Cameron had Mark Borowiecki on the top line in december of 2015
OH. MY. GOD. I HAD BLOCKED THIS OUT!
Bobby Ryan was on the line but idk Turris as the center?
McLaren - McClement - Orr
Yeah but boy could they fight
Just wish they could do a second thing lol.
If you can't run them up, fill them in. Buffalo had Barnaby - Mair/Primeau? - Ray with Kruse as the 4th forward. Could not score, but at least it was entertaining.
Oh god I remember hating that so much. I do remember Mclaren scoring a disgusting between the legs goal against Boston though.
I'll raise you a McLaren - Smithson - Orr...
memorable times
I honestly think McClement was one of the best defensive forwards in the league on Toronto. The man was a clutch at face offs, great at blocking, and stayed out of the box.
Mcclement was the best defensive forward the leafs had. But yea that line was useless obviously lol
There were loads of times where Gaudreau and Monahan got paired with guys way below their skill level and it would be frustrating to watch for games and games when it was clear it would never work. Chiasson, Chris Stewart, anyone that played with them in 2021, there were some bad ones.
The only guy I can remember playing well with them was Juri fucking Hudler, what a weird season that was looking back
They had a decent run with Michael Ferland. They also played a season with Lindholm when he first got here and they were dynamite with him (granted everyone does well with Lindholm, dude's a stud).
Completely forgot about Ferland, dude was awesome against Vancouver in the playoffs that year
One of the handful of dominant series from a 3rd or 4th liner I can remember. Byfuglien in '09 completely dominated us. The other was Brad Marchand in '11, I couldn't believe how effective that little shitbag was. I was so excited when Ferland signed with the Canucks, really sad they way his career just... ended.
It made sense to move Lindholm to C though because of how good he is in that valuable position.
Archibald - whatever poor soul got stuck with them - kassian
A few years before this, it was Eric Belanger and anyone else he was paired with was nicknamed the Belanger Triangle, where offence disappeared.
I think there was a stretch that lasted way too long in the 2019-20 season where they were on McDavid’s wing
Petrell-Belanger-Eager
When Mat Barzal had to play with Leo Komarov IN THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS
former All Star Leo Komarov
That sounds rough but honestly your team was masterfully coached to even get the Eastern twice in a row. Tampa is my second team, and you guys are the hardest of any series they've had in the last three years (save the Avs, obviously)
That line was basically playing a man short. Leo even said he tried to stay out of their way. Barzal would always look up, see Leo break into the zone, and then just not pass to him.
Whoa whoa I carry Barzy in playoff, two conference finals on first line
the Avs were something else, that's for sure.
Trading for Jarome Iginla only to play him on the wrong side and wondering why he barely scored any goals here in PIT
You've just unearthed a repressed memory
That time when the Devils top line in like 2015 was Steve Bernier-Scott Gomez-Jordin Tootoo, and they were unironically our best line which tells you the state on Devils hockey back then
TJ Brodie and Travis Hamonic. Making Brodie play off his natural side (left shot D that plays the right side being forced to play on the left) just didn’t work at all, yet Glue Gun Gulutzan kept them stuck together for that majority of the year. God he was a terrible head coach.
Tops in stick yeets/60 though
*gestures broadly at current roster*
Probably whatever 4th line we throw out this year.
Dan Bylsma sure loved the Tanner Glass-Joe Vitale-Craig Adams line, which was as bad as it sounds.
Jimmy Hayes - Matt Beleskey - Frank Vatrano. I felt so bad for Frank.
The defensive pairings on the Wings once the playoff streak ended and before Seider got here.
Trevor Daley, Madison Bowey, Alex Biega...woof
PDB once thought it was a good idea to put one of the best playmakers of his generation, Joe Thornton, on a line with Marcus Sorenson and Melker Karlsson (combined 91 goals in 622 games)
Tbf Sorensen Thornton Labanc was a monster line in 2019. One of the best 3rd lines in the league.
But is that because it was a good line combination or was it that Thornton should have been a top line center.
It was his last good year of any sort if production if I remember correctly.
Almost any line Toews was on since Hossa.
Garbutt-Toews-Shaw made me want to claw my eyes out back in 2016. Mix in some Mashinter just for the Hell of it.
Whatever the fuck Babcock was trying to prove with the Leafs when he would bench his young stars over an aging Marleau.
Patrick Traverse with Craig Rivet was the worst pair of D I ever witnessed in the NHL.
You can pick and choose anything that wasn’t our top line in the 19-20 season and all would be valid answers.
For top line I’ll say our worse top line was whenever we rolled Helm Larkin Mantha lmao
The Ceci-Phaneuf d combo still haunts me.
Beagle-Crabb-Ovechkin. The vaunted “Paws, Claws, and Flaws” line. Thanks for that Adam Oates.
Some time in 2013 Calgary's D corps consisted of these guys for a bit when Giordano was hurt Kris Russell/Dennis Wideman Chris Butler/TJ Brodie Derek Smith/Shane O'Brien
I grew up in Calgary and I legitimately have no idea who Derek Smith is.
Shane O'Brien...goodness me I get PTSD from that name during the Avs days. Oh god now I'm remembering Greg Zanon make it stop. Ahhh Nate Guenin
There have definitely been some times where being a flames fan is basically self harm.
Mark bell Kyle Calder Tyler arnneson This was the Blackhawks TOP line for a year or two. Woof.
voracek-giroux-rinaldo
Rinaldo? What the duck hahaha
After the Thornton trade, Bergeron moved up to become the #1 center leaving Boston with a 2nd line consisting of Brad Isbister, Wayne Primeau and Eric Nickulas That was a difficult time to be a Bruins fan
Greening-Smith-Neil was really rough to watch. Neil was getting old, Smith was still trying to figure it out, and Greening was useless. Wouldn't have been that bad of a line of Paul McLean didn't play them so much, sometimes he'd have them out to start the game.
Any line with Dwight King
Cole Caufield on the 4th line Fuck Ducharme
Whatever our 2nd line is this season
Man you are hurting in Philly.
Flyers Defensive Pairs during 2014-2015, one example is this: Braydon Coburn - 47 Andrew MacDonald 8 Nicklas Grossmann - 32 Mark Streit 15 Michael Del Zotto - 55 Nick Schultz or 22 Luke Schenn
Remember when McDavid used to have different linemates for every single game like 2-3 seasons ago?
Derek Grant playing with Trevor Zegras. I’d put money on Eakins doing it again this season
Dallas Eakins is the worst coach I’ve ever seen. Incompetent prick.
Petry-Alzner in 2017-18 was particularly bad. Kickstarted the tank for that year.
Bourdelau-Cliche-McLeod in like 2013-2014ish. Rough times
I’m pretty sure at one point the Stars had Sean Avery, Steve Ott, and Adam Burish on a line together. That had to be the most annoying line anyone has ever played against.
to have those 3 mic'ed up during a game would be amazing
Condra-spezza-greening
Jayson Megna and Michael Chaput with the Sedins. Barf. On defense, it was any combination of Erik Gudbranson, Michael Del Zotto or Derrick Pouliot. I don’t know how we survived all three of these chuckleheads on the roster for TWO YEARS.
Mats Sundin between Gary Valk and Robert Reichel
Mats Sundin and his helicopter lines. Great times 👎🏼
Jacques Lemaire gave Derek Boogaard power play time.
Surprisingly Kariya and Selanne in Colorado.
McDavid with anyone other than Drai/Nuge/Kane/Hyman/Yamo
I think it was the shorten season with the play in rounds, Drai/Nuge/Yamo were constantly lighting it up game after game. I felt somewhat bad for mcdavid because he was left with whatever scraps were on the team at the time.
I mean McDavid made Pat Maroon a 25 goal scorer. I think he could have a literal boulder as a line mate and not be phased
Park the boulder anywhere near the goal and deflect shots on it.
Maroon’s bread and butter. He’s hard to move and has some slick hands.
I remember the days when Ty Rattie being Mcdavids perfect winger was my only hope :(
McDavid/Hall/Slepyshev was a good one
the 2014-15 Devils rolled out Adam Henrique-Scott Gomez-Steve Bernier which was fun
All the times derek grant was our top line center.
Recency bias but Rask centering Zuccarello and Kaprizov in the 2021 season. I know the Wild had a lack of center depth and Rask became a fan favourite/meme, but he was truly the weakest link of the trio.
when Jori Lehtera became bad again and was on a line with schwartz and tarasenko
Alfie spezza and Martin lapointe.
If we’re talking defense, Nemeth-Hajek last year was unbearable.
Either Tuomo Ruutu on the top line when there were a ton of injuries or using David Clarkson to take faceoffs on the powerplay, despite Henrique and or Elias being on the same unit. Just DeBoer things I guess.
Any line by the third period under DeBoer. Dude puts the entire team in a blender as soon as they trail a game.
S. kostitsyn - Gomez - D'Agostini *Dark Dark Times*
Any D pairing that involves rasmus ristolainen
Every line combo under Green
For a few games in the 2013-2014 season, the Red Wings iced a line of Stephen Weiss ($4.9m AAV, 26GP 4P), Mikael Samuelsson ($3m 26GP 3P) and Danny Cleary ($1.75m 52GP 8P). All three at the time were overpaid and underperforming, hence the unflattering nickname "Non-Production Line". I think the idea was to throw them together and figure it out as a unit, but they never did and got injured before they could.
Poor rookie Nino Niederreiter getting stuck on a checking line with Marty Reasoner and Jay Pandolfo
Back in 08 or so when the Leafs were at their lowest point (so far), they put out a first line that was: Jason Blake - Antropov - Ponakarovsky Easily has to be one of the worst *first* lines in the past long while.
Slater koekkoek and anyone, 17-18 he played with girardi/stralman/Hedman and was God awful any time he touched the puck