As much as I dont want Pelley at third line, I think we can hold for the week or two that Zajac is out. I dont see the point in signing someone. I mean Henrique could come play center even.

No doubt Adam will be on the team now.

Do the Henrique Air Guitar!

P.S. I think this will make Josefson and Elias centeriing the first two first lines (I say “first two” because I define our first two lines as 1a and 1b. In fact, a good number of the teams have that arrangement). That’s what I think it will be, but in a perfect world I would rather have Zubrus to centering the non-Parise line. As I’ve expressed previously, I really don’t like and have never liked Elias playing at center because his faceoff percentage is absolutely horrible (169th in the league last year, and he doesn’t score as much as he should with his skill because he scores more playing left wing instead of center. According to NHL.com, he was 218th in the league in percentage at a shockingly awful 45.0%. Of course, it wouldn’t be fair to compare his percentage to guys who took a very little number of faceoffs and just happened to get lucky by winning a significant chunk of the few they got to take, so I quickly tallied up all the players who took 35 faceoffs or less (approximately 70), and I deducted them from his rank, so he really had about the 198th best percentage in the league. But heck, both 268th and 198th both sound so awful that I don’t think one is more impressive than the other. 45.0%….

Eh, it wasn’t that much of a shot. And to be honest, he won a cup after the lockout (not that he had a whole lot to do with that), so he wasn’t completely out of line to make the comments he did.

I’m not saying he’s needed, wanted, or the best solution to the problem. But in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a bit of a tendency in Newark for bringing back players they know in this sort of situation. The Devs know what they’ll get with Madden, and for $1M to fill in for a year, it wouldn’t be that bad.

I’d much prefer Henrique be given the chance to succeed, but there’s always the possibility that he isn’t ready or able to hack 3rd line center duties. Then again, he might bust things open and let Zubs go back to wing. Who knows.

the devils are not at the 50 player maximum. i’m tired of hearing this.

Sure he did. Simple torn achillies. Not a rupture. Easy fix. Just time to heal.

"He’ll be in a cast for a week and then he’ll be in a walking boot right after that," Lamoriello said. "Then, it’s the healing process, which takes around three months."

I’ve been all for Palms playing with Kovy, and I think DeBoer would have been silly to break them up in any case, since they seemed to have some pretty strong chemistry last season.

The only thing I’m worried about is that there is no team quota or limit for injuries. Just becasue we lose Trav before the season doesn’t mean we are immune to injuries until he gets back. Another injury at C or RW when already counting on JJ to pick it up bigtime, Henrique to step into 3C duties, and so on. The alternatives of Corrente playing forward, binging Sestito back up to play, or counting on Pelley for extended periods of time scare the hell out of me.

Why should Elias be a winger? He’s been great at center. He’s a distributor of the puck. He’s now okay at faceoffs. He’s a great defensive player.

Promotion to which line? Just curious.

I only started liking him as the season went on and he improved so much. Before that, I thought he maybe had 20-goal-scorer potential at best because if the serious improvement didn’t happen and he stayed at that lower level, he would never be much of a force on the ice.

I think he has the offensive potential to be a St. Louis lite (let’s not pin our hopes to high!), but he would have to become not only one of the best offensive forwards in the league, but one of the best defensive forwards as well.

yea and larsson into lindstrom and maxime clement into marty and jj into datsyuk and andy greene into mike greene

Mills is a centerman, thats why!