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Goalies, Lines and More for NHL Opening Day!

by Ethan Haskell (Ethan) Last Updated 2013-01-19 18:24:48

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So we are still working on the final touches of our NHL daily research tool drop-down but I figured that our wonderful Grinders need some information now because most sites are running massive promotions for the start of the NHL season. So with that in mind I will keep this page updated throughout the day with starting goalie news and more. I’ve also dug through as many blogs, beat writers and random hockey articles I could find to drudge up as many line combinations as I could find.

I’ll be adding to the article throughout the day but just wanted to get the line combinations and starting goalies up to start so check back in soon for more updates!

For more info on Opening Night hockey, check out the awesome daily plays article from JMBWNGFN aka JMB Wings Fan

NHL Daily Plays: Opening Night

AND a great blog from an avid hockey fan Billsfan777 Cheap Players on Good Lines

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STARTING GOALIES

TIME AWAY TEAM AWAY GOALIE CONFIRMED? HOME TEAM HOME GOALIE CONFIRMED?
3:00 AM Pittsburgh Marc-Andre Fleury YES Philadelphia Ilya Bryzgalov YES
3:00 PM Ottawa Craig Anderson YES Winnipeg Ondrej Pavelec YES
3:00 PM Chicago Corey Crawford YES Los Angeles Jonathan Quick YES
7:00 PM NY Rangers Henrik Lundqvist YES Boston Tuuka Rask PROB
7:00 PM Toronto Ben Scrivens PROB Montréal Carey Price YES
7:00 PM New Jersey Martin Brodeur YES NY Islanders Evgeni Nabokov YES
7:00 PM Washington Braden Holtby YES Tampa Bay Anders Lindback YES
7:30 PM Carolina Cam Ward YES Florida Jose Theodore PROB
8:00 PM Detroit Jimmy Howard YES St. Louis Jaroslav Halak YES
8:00 PM Columbus SERGEI BOBROVSKY PROB Nashville Pekka Rinne PROB
8:00 PM Phoenix Mike Smith PROB Dallas Kari Lehtonen YES
9:00 PM Colorado Semyon Varlamov YES Minnesota Niklas Bakstrom YES
10:00 PM Anaheim Jonas Hiller YES Vancouver Cory Schneider PROB

Line Combinations

So this is the best I could find and easily put together in one page for you NHL Grinders. Keep in mind some of these are based on reports from beat writers and are BEST GUESSES at what the actual line combinations will be. We won’t know for sure what the line combos are until after today but here are the best estimates. I also didn’t include PowerPlay units because info on those was extremely difficult to find. Hope it helps though:

ANAHEIM LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Kyle Palmieri Ryan Getzlaf Corey Perry DEF-1 Francois Beauchemin Toni Lydman
LINE 2 Bobby Ryan Nick Bonino Teemu Selanne DEF-2 Cam Fowler Bryan Allen
LINE 3 Andrew Cogliano Saku Koivu Daniel Winnik DEF-3 Luca Sbisa Sheldon Souray
LINE 4 Matt Beleskey Devante Smith-Pelly Brad Staubitz
BOSTON LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Milan Lucic David Krejci Nathan Horton DEF-1 Zdeno Chara Dennis Seidenberg
LINE 2 Brad Marchand Patrice Bergeron Tyler Seguin DEF-2 Andrew Ference Adam McQuaid
LINE 3 Rich Peverley Chris Kelly Jordan Caron DEF-3 Aaron Johnson Johnny Boychuk
LINE 4 Daniel Paille Gregory Campbell Shawn Thornton
BUFFALO LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Thomas Vanek Cory Hodgson Jason Pominville DEF-1 Christian Ehroff Alexander Sulzer
LINE 2 Tyler Ennis Drew Stafford Marcus Foligno DEF-2 Tyler Myers Robin Regehr
LINE 3 Steve Ott Mikhail Grgorenko Ville Leino DEF-3 Andrej Sekera Jordan Leopold
LINE 4 John Scott Jochen Hecht Patrick Kaleta
CALGARY LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Curtis Glencross Alex Tanguay Jarome Iginla DEF-1 Mark Giordano Jay Bouwmeester
LINE 2 Sven Baertschi Mikael Backlund Michael Cammalleri DEF-2 Chris Butler Dennis Wideman
LINE 3 Roman Horak Matt Stajan Lee Stempniak DEF-3 Derek Smith Cory Sarich
LINE 4 Blake Comeau Blair Jones Tim Jackman
CAROLINA LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Zach Boychuk Eric Staal Alexander Semin DEF-1 Tim Gleason Justin Faulk
LINE 2 Jeff Skinner Jordan Staal Zac Dalpe DEF-2 Bobby Sanguinetti Jay Harrison
LINE 3 Jiri Tlusty Jussi Jokinen Chad LaRose DEF-3 Joni Pitkanen Jamie McBain
LINE 4 Drayson Bowman Tim Brent Pat Dwyer
CHICAGO LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Dan Carcillo Jonathan Toews Marian Hossa DEF-1 Duncan Keith Brent Seabrook
LINE 2 Patrick Sharp Dave Bolland Patrick Kane DEF-2 Nick Leddy Sheldon Brookbank
LINE 3 Bryan Bickell Andrew Shaw Viktor Stalberg DEF-3 Johnny Oduya Niklas Hjalmarsson
LINE 4 Brandon Bollig Jamal Mayers Michael Frolik
COLORADO LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Gabriel Landeskog Matt Duchene P.A. Parenteau DEF-1
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4
COLUMBUS LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 R.J. Umberger Derick Brassard Cam Atkinson DEF-1 Jack Johnson James Wisniewski
LINE 2 Brandon Dubinsky Artem Anisimov Derek Dorsett DEF-2 Nikita Nikitin Fedor Tyutin
LINE 3 Nick Foligno Ryan Johansen Vinny Prospal DEF-3 John Moore Adrian Aucoin
LINE 4 Matt Calvert Derek MacKenzie Jared Boll
DALLAS LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Loui Eriksson Derek Roy Jaromir Jagr DEF-1 Alex Goligoski Stephane Robidas
LINE 2 Ray Whitney Tom Wandell Michael Ryder DEF-2 Aaron Rome Trevor Daley
LINE 3 Brenden Morrow Vernon Fiddler Eric Nystrom DEF-3 Philip Larsen
LINE 4 Ryan Garbutt Cody Eakin Reilly Smith
DETROIT LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Henrik Zetterberg Pavel Datsyuk Damien Brunner DEF-1 Niklas Kronwall Jonathan Ericsson
LINE 2 Mikael Samuelsson Valtteri Filppula Johan Franzen DEF-2 Kyle Quincey Brendan Smith
LINE 3 Todd Bertuzzi Darren Helm Danny Cleary DEF-3 Jakub Kindl Ian White
LINE 4 Drew Miller Justin Abdelkader Jordin Tootoo
EDMONTON LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Taylor Hall Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Jordan Eberle DEF-1 Nick Schultz Justin Schultz
LINE 2 Nail Yakupov Sam Gagner Ales Hemsky DEF-2 Ladislav Smid Jeff Petry
LINE 3 Ryan Smyth Shawn Horcoff Teemu Hartikainen DEF-3 Ryan Whitney Corey Potter
LINE 4 Ben Eager Eric Belanger Lennart Petrell

FLORIDA

LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 DEF-1 Filip Kuba Brian Campbell
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4

LOS ANGELES

LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 DEF-1
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4

MINNESOTA LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Zach Parise Mikko Koivu Dany Heatley DEF-1 Ryan Suter Jared Spurgeon
LINE 2 Matt Cullen Mikael Granlund Devin Setoguchi DEF-2 Clayton Stoner Tom Gilbert
LINE 3 Pierre-Marc Bouchard Kyle Brodziak Cal Clutterbuck DEF-3 Justin Falk Nate Prosser
LINE 4 Torrey Mitchell Zenon Konopka Darroll Powe
MONTREAL LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Max Pacioretty David Desharnais Erik Cole DEF-1 Josh Gorges P.K. Subban
LINE 2 Alex Galchenyuk Tomas Plekanec Brian Gionta DEF-2 Frederic St. Denis Andrei Markov
LINE 3 Travis Moen Lars Eller Rene Bourque DEF-3 Tomas Kaberle
LINE 4 Brandon Prust Ryan White Colby Armstrong
NASHVILLE LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 DEF-1
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4
NEW JERSEY LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Travis Zajac Denis Zubrus Ilya Kovalchuk DEF-1
LINE 2 Bobby Butler Patrick Elias David Clarkson DEF-2
LINE 3 Brian Gionta Steve Bernier Jacob Josefson DEF-3
LINE 4 Cam Janssen Ryan Carter Krys Barch
NY ISLANDERS LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Matt Moulson John Tavares Kyle Okposo DEF-1 Mark Streit
LINE 2 Josh Bailey Frans Nielsen Brad Boyes DEF-2 Travis Hamonic Andrew MacDonald
LINE 3 Matt Martin Marty Reasoner Nino Niederreiter DEF-3 Matt Donovan Matt Carkner
LINE 4 Jay Pandolfo Keith Aucoin
NY RANGERS LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Carl Hagelin Brad Richards Rick Nash DEF-1 Ryan McDonagh Dan Girardi
LINE 2 Marian Gaborik Derek Stepan Ryan Callahan DEF-2 Michael Del Zotto Stu Bickel
LINE 3 Taylor Pyatt Jeff Halpern Chris Kreider DEF-3 Marc Staal Anton Stralman
LINE 4 Arron Asham Brian Boyle Michael Rupp
OTTAWA LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Milan Michalek Jason Spezza Jakob Silfverberg DEF-1 Marc Methot Erik Karlsson
LINE 2 Guillaume Latendresse Kyle Turris Daniel Alfredsson DEF-2 Mark Borowiecki Sergei Gonchar
LINE 3 Colin Greening Zack Smith Chris Neil DEF-3 Chris Phillips Patrick Wiercioch
LINE 4 Peter Regin Jim O’Brien Erik Condra
PHILADELPHIA LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Scott Hartnell Claude Giroux Brayden Schenn DEF-1 Kimmo Timonen Luke Schenn
LINE 2 Max Talbot Sean Couturier Jakub Voracek DEF-2 Braydon Coburn Nicklas Grossmann
LINE 3 Wayne Simmonds Scott Laughton Matt Read DEF-3 Andrej Meszaros Kurtis Foster
LINE 4 Ruslan Fedotenko Eric Wellwood Zac Rinaldo

PHOENIX

LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 DEF-1
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4

PITTSBURGH LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Chris Kunitz Sidney Crosby Pascal Dupuis DEF-1 Brooks Orpik Kris Letang
LINE 2 Eric Tangradi Evgeni Malkin James Neal DEF-2 Paul Martin Matt Niskanen
LINE 3 Matt Cooke Brandon Sutter Tyler Kennedy DEF-3 Deryk Engelland Ben Lovejoy
LINE 4 Tanner Glass Joe Vitale Craig Adams

SAN JOSE

LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 DEF-1
LINE 2 DEF-2
LINE 3 DEF-3
LINE 4

ST.LOUIS LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 David Perron David Backes T.J. Oshie DEF-1 Barret Jackman Alex Pietrangelo
LINE 2 Andy McDonald Alex Steen Vladimir Tarasenko DEF-2 Ian Cole Kevin Shattenkirk
LINE 3 Jamie Langenbrunner Patrik Berglund Chris Stewart DEF-3 Kris Russell Roman Polak
LINE 4 Vladimir Sobotka Scott Nichol Ryan Reaves
TAMPA BAY LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Martin St. Louis Steven Stamkos Ryan Malone DEF-1 Eric Brewer Matt Carle
LINE 2 Cory Conacher Vincent Lecavalier Teddy Purcell DEF-2 Victor Hedman Sami Salo
LINE 3 Nate Thompson Adam Hall B.J. Crombeen DEF-3 Brian Lee Marc-Andre Bergeron
LINE 4 J.T. Wyman Tom Pyatt Brett Connolly
TORONTO LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Joffrey Lupul Tyler Bozak Phil Kessel DEF-1 Mike Komisarek Dion Phaneuf
LINE 2 Nikolai Kulemin Mikhail Grabovski Clarke MacArthur DEF-2 John-Michael Liles Spencer Abbott
LINE 3 Nazem Kadri Tim Connolly DEF-3 Jake Gardiner Cody Franson
LINE 4 Jay McClement Mike Brown
VANCOUVER LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Daniel Sedin Henrik Sedin Alexandre Burrows DEF-1 Dan Hamhuis Kevin Bieksa
LINE 2 Mason Raymond Andrew Ebbett Zack Kassian DEF-2 Jason Garrison Alexander Edler
LINE 3 Chris Higgins Maxim Lapierre Jannik Hansen DEF-3 Keith Ballard Chris Tanev
LINE 4 Aaron Volpatti Manny Malhotra Dale Weise
WASHINGTON LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Marcus Johansson Nicklas Backstrom Alex Ovechkin DEF-1 Karl Alzner John Carlson
LINE 2 Wojtek Wolski Mike Ribeiro Troy Brouwer DEF-2 Roman Hamrlik Mike Green
LINE 3 Eric Fehr Jay Beagle Joey Crabb DEF-3 John Erskine Dmitri Orlov
LINE 4 Mike Knuble Joel Ward
WINNIPEG LW C RW DEFs
LINE 1 Andrew Ladd Bryan Little Blake Wheeler DEF-1 Tobias Enstrom Dustin Byfuglien
LINE 2 Evander Kane Olli Jokinen Kyle Wellwood DEF-2 Mark Stuart Zach Bogosian
LINE 3 Mark Scheifele Alex Burmistrov Alexei Ponikarovsky DEF-3 Nik Antropov Grant Clitsome
LINE 4 Jim Slater Chris Thorburn Spencer Machacek

PowerPlay Top Units

I wasn’t able to find much concrete evidence on PP-units but here’s what I could get for what it’s worth. NOTE: These are PowerPlay 1 Units.

PHILADELPHIA: Voracek-Hartnell-Simmonds-Timmonen
TAMPA BAY: St. Louis-Malone-Purcell-Stamkos-Salo
CAROLINA: Skinner-E. Staal-Semin-Corvo-Faulk
CHICAGO: Shaw-Toews-Hossa-Seabrook-Keith
PITTSBURGH: Malkin-Crosby-Neal-Kunitz

Sleepers to Consider

1) Matt Duchene – C – Colorado
2) Erik Tangradi – Pittsburgh
3) Sammy Salo – D – Tampa Bay
4) Travis Zajac – RW – New Jersey
5) Vladimir Tarasenko – LW – St. Louis
6) Kyle Okposo – RW – New York Islanders

Top Goalie Rankings for Saturday 1/19

These are based mostly on match-up with skill playing a factor as well:

1) Pekka Rinne vs. CBJ
2) Jaroslav Halak vs. DET
3) Niklas Backstrom vs. COL
4) Ondrej Pavelec vs. OTT
5) Henrik Lundqvist vs. BOS
6) Mike Smith vs. DAL
7) Cory Schneider vs. ANH
8) Craig Anderson vs. WPG
9) Ben Scrivens vs. MON
10) Martin Brodeur vs. NYI

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