After missing 23 games, Logan Couture is back in the Sharks lineup. Thank God. He’ll slot right back on to the second line, with Nieto-Hertl-Wingels making up the third line. Zubrubs-Tierney-Donskoi will be the fourth line, which is a bit of a surprise. Tierney has been better than Mike Brown this season, but not so much so that I’d expect DeBoer to keep Brown’s grit in the press box.
Projected Sharks Lines
Melker Karlsson – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski
Patrick Marleau – Logan Couture – Joel Ward
Matt Nieto – Tomas Hertl – Tommy Wingels
Dainius Zubrus – Chris Tierney – Joonas Donskoi
Brenden Dillon – Justin Braun
Paul Martin – Brent Burns
Mirco Mueller – Matt Tennyson
Martin Jones
Alex Stalock
Projected Flames Lines
Johnny Gaudreau – Sean Monahan – David Jones
Sam Bennett – Markus Granlund – Jiri Hudler
Mason Raymond – Mikael Backlund – Michael Frolik
Michael Ferland –– Matt Stajan – Joe Colborne
Mark Giordano – T.J. Brodie
Dennis Wideman – Dougie Hamilton
Ladislav Smid – Deryk Engelland
Karri Ramo
Jonas Hiller
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