The San Jose Sharks are making a couple big line changes, one familiar, one not so familiar.
Tyler Toffoli is re-joining Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith in a reunion of the Sleepover Line.
The trio has had success at 5-on-5 together, sporting a 74.1 Goals For % over the last two years. Granted, their 44.6 Expected Goals %, per Evolving Hockey, falls far short of 74.1, which might help to explain why they haven’t been kept together on a consistent basis.
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Something new, Will Smith is manning the point on the San Jose Sharks’ top power play unit. The Sharks are going with five forwards on PP1 for the first time this season, Celebrini, Toffoli, Ivar Stenberg, and Mason Marchment.
Smith will be replacing Dmitry Orlov up top; Orlov had some early success on PP1 this year, but has regressed recently.
“You can see everyone in front of you,” Smith said, about playing the point. “You’ve got to work the [blueline] and open up the flank guys, and also be a shot threat.”
Smith has the shot and deception to play the point on the power play, but there are defensive concerns, being the last man back. What’s he got to watch out for up top?
“The pressure coming at you,” San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “Especially a team like Calgary, they’re gonna pressure you up top. You gotta feel that and read that and make the next play.”
San Jose Sharks (7-7-1)
Yaroslav Askarov is starting.
Here’s how lines looked at morning skate:
Toffoli-Celebrini-Smith
Marchment-Misa-Sherwood
Stenberg-Bystedt-Graf
Goodrow-Ostapchuk-Gaudette
Dickinson-Trouba
Nurse-Kesselring
Allan-Orlov
Askarov
PP1 is Smith-Celebrini-Stenberg-Toffoli-Marchment; PP2 is Orlov-Trouba-Misa-Sherwood-Gaudette.
There were a lot of questions about San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky suggesting that there was a lack of “buy-in” in the locker room after Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators.
Warsofsky still considers Wennberg week-to-week
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