Coming off their first loss of the year New York Islanders head coach Barry Trotz confirmed that there will be lineup changes for tomorrows game. At practice, we saw some new look lines and d-pairings and it will continue to the game action on Monday.
We’ll start with the forward group. Tom Kuhnhackl is going to come in and replace Tanner Fritz who actually looked fairly good in his first two games of the year.
Ultimately, Fritz is better than Kuhnhackl but neither should be a part of the regular lineup. Regardless, this one comes as a surprise even though in the end the fourth line right winger doesn’t matter too much.