And as we see more, it makes more sense. OK, so Campbell’s getting demoted to the fourth line. I like him, but I think an Olesz-Moore-Dvorak line might be more capable as a scoring line as well as a penalty-killing/shutdown line. And I’m guessing Repik wasn’t all that, and his getting sent down was because this move was coming. So, we’re going to have Campbell-Matthias-Kreps on the fourth? That’s not a bad fourth.

To all the gloom and doomers harping on the acquisition of a third-line forward (not here, but elsewhere), there’s more than one way to win a hockey game and if you’ve got a good shutdown line that you can put against other teams’ top lines you can keep their best players off the scoresheet.

Additionally, if you have guys on four lines that can score and you can trust all of your players defensively, you can roll four lines and a: relieve the pressure off your top line guys to score, especially if the other team is putting a shutdown line out against you all game, b: keep the time line guys rested for power plays and late game pushes.

If you don’t have an Ovechkin/Crosby/Nash on your team, then you have to score by committee and strong third and fourth lines are needed in that situation. This move looks like DeBoer and Sexton realize the situation and are responding appropriately. And yes, Horton should be that guy. But he isn’t. If we’re lucky in a year or two Frolik will be that guy.

I sincerely hope you didn’t pay that exorbitant amount for so much fecal matter.