Rick Stevens

And I think there's going to be tweaks to all over the lineup with the exception of the second line.

And I'm sorry.

Yeah.

If Marty makes any changes to that second line, it's a bad decision because Kapanen with Demidov and Slavkovsky should be a lock at this point.

I know that the Canadians need a suitable complement to Suzuki and Caulfield, and Slavkovsky could provide that, but you don't want to break up that young line.

Second line who are driving the offense right now.

So you leave that second line alone.

We've said that Texier is, let's be honest, he's a bottom six forward.

So will Kirby Dock be given a chance when he comes back?

Maybe not the...

Very first game that he plays as the coaching staff likes to ease the players into the lineup.

But eventually, will Kirby Dock be given a chance to play with Suzuki and Caulfield?

And he could provide some of the same elements to that line as Slavkoski did previously.

There are.

And there's even too many bottom six centers, which maybe is a good problem to have.

So Jake Evans, you have Jake Evans, Phil Donnell, Joe Valeno, with all kind of the same...

resume let's say that they each have their own uh strengths and but but but looking to fill you know that that um bottom six center role taking face-offs um being being a defensive forward playing being uh hard to play against um playing on um penalty kill um

End of the game, locking down a lead, all of that.

So those three players, and I don't think there'll be any controversy here, in order would be Evans, Deneau, and Valeno.

Valeno, does that mean he's out of the lineup?