Who will be the Third Amigo?

Posted by: Prognosticating Pucker on Thu Jul 02nd 2009 11:22am

CHL Man of the Year

With the great news of the signing of David Nimmo for the 2009-'10 season, we are reminded that two out of three members of one of our two very productve scoring lines are back. In '07-'08 season the line of Lipsett, Selinger, and Miller combined for 144 points and the threesome of Nimmo, Vandermeer, and Sutter lit the lamp for 233 points.

The CHL Man of the Year, Austin Sutter, is now joined on the team by his former linemate Nimmo, the former CHL Rookie of the Year. Speculating that we will see Nimmo and Sutter reunited on a line, who will be the third spoke of that potential scoring machine?

Sutter is more of a hustling setup man and Nimmo is a balanced, big-body scoring machine. My thoughts are on a fast sniper that is willing to muck in the corners as well.

Of those already signed, Joe Guenther fits the bill of sniper and a strong presence along the dashers. But he is a big-body too and I think that we'd see him on another line so that we have a brute force on each line to go to the net.

Gordie Bell will center his own line and will essentially lead the shut-down line that has a scoring upside. There is not enough known about Connelly yet, so placing him in any particular spot is not doable.

We will wait and see. There will be more to come.