Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2016-2017 (aka Season 20)
A line of Reilly/Piazza/Schipper ought to be generating more offense than it has been, or than it did last year. My inclination (recognizing that I'm not at practice or in the dressing room, and might be missing important information) would be that eight games is too small of a sample to give up on it given the past track record, and ought to stay together for now. As ARM said, the Woken/Williamson/Agnew combination showed signs of breaking out this weekend, so I'd stick with that, too.
That leaves Schammel and Keller as spare parts. One way to use them would be to fill in on occasional shifts on the other lines. Another is to have one of the top three centers take some shifts with them on the wing, which the team has done in the past. Or see if there is someone else (Haley? Skarzynski, though I'm not keen on bouncing her back and forth between forward and defense?) who you can use to create a full fourth line.
At this point, I think the lack of secondary scoring is a concern, but well short of a crisis.
A line of Reilly/Piazza/Schipper ought to be generating more offense than it has been, or than it did last year. My inclination (recognizing that I'm not at practice or in the dressing room, and might be missing important information) would be that eight games is too small of a sample to give up on it given the past track record, and ought to stay together for now. As ARM said, the Woken/Williamson/Agnew combination showed signs of breaking out this weekend, so I'd stick with that, too.
That leaves Schammel and Keller as spare parts. One way to use them would be to fill in on occasional shifts on the other lines. Another is to have one of the top three centers take some shifts with them on the wing, which the team has done in the past. Or see if there is someone else (Haley? Skarzynski, though I'm not keen on bouncing her back and forth between forward and defense?) who you can use to create a full fourth line.
At this point, I think the lack of secondary scoring is a concern, but well short of a crisis.
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