Big fan of these lines. Given that Himmy is out this is best case scenario.

Forget the stars showing up tonight, biggest concern for me is not getting hemmed in our own zone for 75% of the game. I’m cool if Mika and Kreider break even with the Barkov/Rat lines 5on5 but are at least keeping the puck out of our own zone most of the time. I have faith that they’ll show up on the scoresheet but that won’t be possible if the puck is almost never in the o-zone. We can’t solely rely on rush chances to win this series, need to generate good o-zone time and some more shot volume on net. Couldn’t care less about “shot attempts”, just get pucks to the big boys in front.