Jon Cooper on Mitch Marner’s line with Connor McDavid & Sam Reinhart at 4 Nations: “If you hand me a line like that, I’ll take my chances… A logical fit for us”

Team Canada ud83cudde8ud83cudde6 lines at #4Nations practice:
Reinhart-McDavid-Marner
Stone-Crosby-MacKinnon
Jarvis-Point-Marchand
Hagel-Cirelli-Bennett

Toews-Makar
Theodore-Doughty
Morrissey-Parayko
Sanheim

Hill/Binnington/Montembeault

— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) February 10, 2025

How long ago did you settle on the lines? What was the process of getting to these combinations?

Cooper: There was a lot to it. We didn’t just pull it out of a hat at the neighborhood pub and say, “This is what we are going with.” There was a lot of communication with the players.

First of all, you have to wait until the team is picked.