Christian Dvorak's unit was not affected, but the others simply became something else. Mathieu Perreault, who did not play yesterday, was in the center of Tyler Toffoli and Cole Caufield, while Nick Suzuki could count on Mike Hoffman and Brendan Gallagher.
It looks like it's going to look like this heading into Thursday's showdown when the Hurricanes visit the Bell Centre. Seems like it makes a lot more sense this way, doesn't it? A mobile defenseman on each pairing, we like that!
Let's just say that the guys were there to work this morning. The perfect example, Joel Armia and Alexander Romanov had a great shuffle. Let's see it happen again in the games, boys!