Connor Dewar elevated the team’s Kampf-Reaves fourth line after he was acquired before the deadline last season, and as Dewar works his way back from injury, it created the opening for Steven Lorentz to prove he could do the same. In preseason, Lorentz and his line generated enough positive shifts playing a hard north-south game and working the walls to earn this contract, and he capped it with a goal in the preseason finale, in addition to showing the versatility to take competent reps at center ice earlier in the preseason.
The question now is whether or not a Lorentz—Kampf—Reaves line can consistently create momentum within the game with offensive-zone shifts in real games against real NHL lines and also whether it can produce any offense at all in the process.