Sportsnet’s Rory Boylen posted an article in which he asks “one training camp-related question” for each and every one of the NHL’s 32 teams, and here’s what he’s curious about when it comes to the Red Wings:
Detroit Red Wings: How will newcomers Andrew Copp, David Perron and Dominik Kubalik shape the forward lines?
They may not be ready to run out of the rebuild yet, but GM Steve Yzerman at least set his team up to be harder to claim two points against. We’d expect returning players Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, Tyler Bertuzzi and Jakub Vrana to be inside the top-six forwards (though Bertuzzi is still a trade candidate this season). So where do the new guys fit? Perron is a valuable leader with an underrated offensive game, Copp is coming off a career season which he ended by going on a tear with the Rangers, and Kubalik scored 30 goals two years ago — can that upside be reopened with better linemates?
Continued; the assumed depth chart in terms of the top three lines looks like this:
Raymond-Larkin-Bertuzzi
Vrana-Copp-Perron
Zadina-Suter-Kubalik
At least in theory!
