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The San Jose Sharks won’t make any changes to their lineup after defeating the Kings in their season opener on Wednesday. That means Chris Tierney sticks as the third line center and, more importantly, Tommy Wingels gets another shot as the fourth line center.
No changes to #SJSharks lineup for tonight
— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzCSN) October 15, 2016
I wrote about Wingels’ performance (tl;dr: he was fine) but didn’t spend too much time on Tierney’s. He also looked just okay while getting pretty favorable line matchups and zone starts (I assume mostly coincidentally as head coach Pete DeBoer doesn’t do much line matching).
This is definitely a worse team than the Sharks faced on Wednesday, but after a long day of travel it wouldn’t be out of character for San Jose to start slowly. In case you’d forgotten how the Sharks lined up on Wednesday, here we go:
San Jose Sharks Lines
Tomas Hertl - Joe Thornton - Joe Pavelski
Mikkel Boedker - Logan Couture - Joonas Donskoi
Patrick Marleau - Chris Tierney - Joel Ward
Matt Nieto - Tommy Wingels - Melker Karlsson
Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Justin Braun
Paul Martin - Brent Burns
Brenden Dillon - David Schlemko
Martin Jones
Aaron Dell
Columbus Blue Jackets Lines
Boone Jenner - Brandon Dubinsky - Cam Atkinson
Brandon Saad - Sam Gagner - Nick Foligno
Scott Hartnell - Alexander Wennberg - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Matt Calvert - William Karlsson - Josh Anderson
Zach Werenski - Seth Jones
Jack Johnson - David Savard
Markus Nutivaara - Dalton Prout
Sergei Bobrovsky
Curtis McElhinney