Carlyle: Line combos flexible.
Asked Tuesday about his many line combinations during the Ducks' recent road trip, Randy Carlyle didn't think there were all that many. So while seeing Evgeni Artyukhin on the occasional line with Ryan Getzlaf might seem odd at first ... "get used to it," was the exact message.
"I've kept
Getzlaf and Perry together; I've kept Selanne and Koivu together; I've kept
Marchant and if it was Artyukhin; and I've kept Carter and Brown and Parros
together," he said. "Your perception is that if I'm moving one guy to a different line
that I'm mixing it up. Well, get used to it because that's what we do."
"We
address two guys that can play together, and if things aren't going the way we
feel they should be going, we aren't afraid to interchange parts. Joffrey Lupul can play with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry. I don't think that's any big
change."
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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