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While complete lines were commonplace throughout NHL history, it is now customary for teams to connect two players that work together well and rotate the third player on the line.
"With the new system, it’s hard to sustain three guys being together,” says Minnesota Wild GM Doug Risebrough. “Maybe you can plan on two guys playing together for a while and constantly rotate the third. You are looking for continuity game to game, but sometimes things don’t work out. So you can get continuity by keeping two together and rotating the third. When you start rotating three players then you’re really losing the continuity.”
"Nowadays you try find two guys that work together well,” agrees Dallas Stars assistant coach Ulf Dahlen. "For a while you could have two players going good together, but then you split them up to get other guys going. Still, you know that you can reunite them because they have the right chemistry. On every team you can find two guys that should be going good together. But with some guys it takes a little while to get used to each other.”
"With the new system, it’s hard to sustain three guys being together,” says Minnesota Wild GM Doug Risebrough. “Maybe you can plan on two guys playing together for a while and constantly rotate the third. You are looking for continuity game to game, but sometimes things don’t work out. So you can get continuity by keeping two together and rotating the third. When you start rotating three players then you’re really losing the continuity.”
"Nowadays you try find two guys that work together well,” agrees Dallas Stars assistant coach Ulf Dahlen. "For a while you could have two players going good together, but then you split them up to get other guys going. Still, you know that you can reunite them because they have the right chemistry. On every team you can find two guys that should be going good together. But with some guys it takes a little while to get used to each other.”
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