Lines for next year?

Parise Langenbrunner Elias

Rolston Holik Zubrus

Madden Pandolfo Gionta

Clarkson Bergfors Zajac

Martin White

Oduya Salvador

Mottau Vishnevski

Yeah I agree Bigtime.  Clearly Rolston was Lou's idea of the big gun we needed...so we have to utilize him in that way.  I'm tired of this Langenbrunner crap.  Get him off the first line, he dumbs down Elias and Parise's game.

Let Patty play the middle in between Rolston and Parise.  Then you go Holik/Zajac, Langenbrunner, and Zubrus.  Madden, Pandolfo, Gionta (maybe even Clarkson here and this line is a real offensive threat).  Clarkson, Zajac/Holik, rookie?

I think I'd actually rather see Pando strictly as a first line penalty killer / fourth liner.  I think its time for John Madden to start playing with some offensive firepower because I think he can really deliver if given the opportunity.  But if Pando comes out flying offensively like he did at the start of last year, I'd be perfectly happy with him and Madden together.

Defensively, I was a huge hater of Oduya and Paul Martin playing on the same line, but you can't argue with the success they had.  It would be hard to put Colin White up with Martin after I saw what I did at the end of last season.  You can say Oduya made dumb mistakes and he's not a first line defender...but you can't argue with the +/- changes.