Last year, line combinations were a big point of discussion for the Colorado Avalanche and their fans. Patrick Roy went the way of Joe Sacco and seemed to pull names out of a hat in hopes of finding the right line combinations. Pairings that had worked in previous years, like the duo of Ryan O’Reilly and Matt Duchene and the tag team of Jarome Iginla and Alex Tanguay, were either split up or took too long to be put together.