Thursday, November 12, 2009

Lundqvist to Start; Fourth Line a Mixed Bag

Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants reports that Henrik Lundqvist will start for the first time in eight days tonight against Atlanta.

Gross sees these as being the top three lines tonight...

Lisin-Prospal-Gaborik
Higgins-Anisimov-Kotalik
Avery-Boyle-Callahan

...which leaves Aaron Voros, Dane Byers and Donald Brashear as fourth-liners but none of those three will play center. Instead, Gross notes, "there will be a lot of mix-and-matching and double shifting to get those guys whatever ice time Tortorella sees fit."

...good to see Hank back.

...regarding the fourth line, this isn't much different than what Torts normally does with that line.

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