Tocchet has done some serious rearranging of the lines. He’s split up Vinny and Alex (they tried so hard to click in my opinion, maybe too hard). He’s moved “Mr FixIt” (aka Mighty Mite MSL) to Vinny’s line and moved Alex down to Halpern’s line along with Drew Miller. James Wright, the rookie that snuck up on all of us in training camp, has been put on the line with VL and MSL and put Downie on the line with Stammer and Bugsy. I think this line will do well; Malone and Stamkos play well together and Downie seemed to have some chemistry with Stammer last season so we’ll see how this goes.

The 4th line is the only one that didn’t get shifted around, at least so far. I am hoping that Marty will make Vinny skate harder and get him going. And the Lightning can have at least 2 productive lines and some scoring from the other two lines too. They’ve got three more days to get some good practice in before Danny Boyle, Dany Heatley and the rest of the SJ Sharks come a’callin’.