Devils’ Lindy Ruff Needs to Find Consistent Forward Lines

1 year ago  /  The Hockey Writers  /  Read Time: 5 minutes 5 seconds

The best NHL teams always have one or two go-to line combos that head coaches rely on, but for the most part, they don’t stay together for all 82 games. New Jersey Devils head coach Lindy Ruff is no stranger to mixing and matching his lines, especially in-game. Let’s look at some pairs Ruff could use to help the Devils’ line combos find more consistency. With all that, that leaves us with these line combos, not all that different than what Ruff used in practice yesterday: Meier – Hischier – Mercer The key to consistent line combos is keeping Meier and Hischier as one pair and Hughes and Bratt as the other....

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