Boudreau trying to get a spark with lineup changes
Bruce Boudreau has changed up the lines a bit after the recent Game 3 loss in practice.
The top two lines, consisting of Patrick Maroon, Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on the first and Matt Beleskey, Ryan Kesler and Jakob Silfverberg remain unchanged. But Boudreau has inserted a bit of speed in his bottom six, replacing Kyle Palmieri on the third line with Tomas Fleischmann and Emerson Etem with Jiri Sekac.
While the line changes aren't set in stone, Boudreau at the very least wants to send his team a wake up call.
"Sometimes," Boudreau said, "you send messages in a subtle way and make sure guys are getting back to where they can play."
Fleischmann saw time in the first round series against the Winnipeg Jets in the final two games of the series, while Sekac hasn't played since the second to last regular-season game nearly a month ago.
"Him and Fleisch are both a possibility to be in or out," Boudreau said. "They played good for us this year. So there's a possibility that both of them could go in, one of them could go in, or neither of them could go in. I don't know how else to say it without saying, 'This guy's in and this guy's out.' "
The Calgary Flames play with a lot of speed, and inserting two quicker guys to play more in more of a defensive role could prove to be beneficial for the Ducks.
(h/t LA Times)
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