Armchair GM'ing PT II: Transition PHASE I

In accordance to what Quinn was talking about building a team for which rolling 4 lines could produce results both offensively and defensively, I tried to envision a lineup that could provide that. In both instances I have moved Brodziak to wing (yes, I know he's good at faceoffs) so that he can barrel down the RW and cause havoc in the low slot.

Lineup 1

New Guy – Horcoff – Hemsky
Penner – Gagner – Brodziak
Cogliano/Moreau – Reasoner – Pisani
Jacques – Spurgeon – Stortini
O’Sullivan
MacIntyre

Visnovsky Grebeshkov
Souray Komisarek
Peckham Staios
Strudwick

Major changes:

• New first line LW
• Nilsson, Smid and Gilbert are traded
• Brodziak on RW
• Reasoner returns
• Organization has to choose between Moreau or Cogliano
• Spurgeon makes the NHL team
• Komisarek is signed as a UFA
  

I believe that if the Oilers could acquire a guy like Sami Pahlsson, a superpest who can win faceoffs, he too could fill the role slated for Spurgeon in this lineup.

Lineup 2

Penner - Horcoff - Hemsky
O'Sullivan - Gagner - Pisani
Cogliano - New Guy - Brodziak
Jacques - Reasoner - Stortini
MacIntyre

Souray Visnovsky
Gilbert Grebeshkov
Peckham New Guy
Strudwick

Major changes:

• Moreau, Nilsson, Smid, and Staios are traded
• Brodziak on RW
• Reasoner returns
• A shutdown D-man is brought in to play with Peckham, who is NHL-ready; Shane Hnidy or Greg Zanon are possibilities
  
• A bonafide shutdown 3rd line center is signed via UFA or acquired by trade is now flanked by Cogliano on LW; this could be anybody from John Madden to Rob Neidermeyer

Lineup 3

Come back tomorrow. This lineup will feature more "coke machines" and "refrigerators" than the first two I proposed.