Luke Evangelista

I mean, his personality, all that stuff.

Speaks for itself, when I was interviewing Luke Evangelista a few weeks ago, Gritsuk came over and pretended he was interviewing him with me and then tried to steal Evangelista from the interview and tried to get him to play ping pong.

And thankfully, Luke was able to stay for the rest of the interview and put the ping pong on hold for a bit.

But look, I mean, frankly, if I was Gritsuk's teammate and I had to deal with the media, I probably would have just ditched the media and went and played ping pong right away.

Unless you're talking about the Boquist and Brown combination need a switch up.

Maybe, but I'm really liking what I'm seeing from the depth there.

But as far as the second line with Nico Timo and Luke Evangelista... sure they haven't they didn't get on the board tonight but certainly though that's a line that you know if the Jack Hughes line isn't going typically that's the one that is so you know I like that trio of players with Timo Mayer Nico Heischer and Luke Evangelista you know they're an offensive offensive line obviously that has defensive responsibility you know again I know everybody will look at the lack of goal total um that timo meyer has but he's doing everything else the right way to help drive offense on that line uh we all have seen the way nico he's been scoring goals and luke evangelista just kind of rounds that line out and does a little bit of everything so um not sure i would break them up i really like what i'm seeing from jesper boquist all around and i don't have any problems with his deployment um and connor brown like you can pluck and place him anywhere and he's going to be successful for me on this team in this system so anything to add there danny

Yeah, I mean, this season, that line, 68-43 scoring chance advantage, 26-16 at high danger, and outscoring opponents 5-3.

His arrival allows Jake Allen to return to backup status, and Hellbuck is active with the puck, helping the Devils' high-flying attack.

Maeda also beefed up the forward group, and Luke Evangelista has been productive.

Arseny Gritsuk is thriving on the top line.

And more important, Jack Hughes, aside some more lost teeth, has been healthy this season.

His arrival allows Jake Allen to return to backup status, and Hellbuck is active with the puck, helping the Devils' high-flying attack.

Maeda also beefed up the forward group, and Luke Evangelista has been productive.

Arseny Gritsuk is thriving on the top line.

And more important, Jack Hughes, aside some more lost teeth, has been healthy this season.

They just

got Luke Evangelista also this season, who's off to a pretty solid start.

Underrated player.

Oh, yeah.

He played 13, but Wilson and big pro toss were, you know, up there.

They're 12,900 against a Nashville top line that without Evangelista just does not do anything for me at either ends of the ice.

So like, I think they're fine.

I think the top line is now a strong Cairo tuck by minutes, by how good they've been.

I'm not playing them at 2x their top two.

They're the highest negatively leveraged line on the night.

They have not been good without Luke Evangelista.

With Bork there, they're at best league average offensively.

He played 13, but Wilson and big pro toss were, you know, up there.

They're 12,900 against a Nashville top line that without Evangelista just does not do anything for me at either ends of the ice.

So like, I think they're fine.

I think the top line is now a strong Cairo tuck by minutes, by how good they've been.

I'm not playing them at 2x their top two.

They're the highest negatively leveraged line on the night.

They have not been good without Luke Evangelista.

With Bork there, they're at best league average offensively.

And if we can build around his mentality for what I have planned, I don't see why they would trade him.

Now, if it's undeniably too good to pass down like you did Luke Evangelista, then I would trade him.

There's no hesitation from me whatsoever to get rid of a guy like that.

But the Matthew Woods of the world, the Brady Martins, Tanner Mullendikes, whichever prospect you want to throw in here, I think it is super pertinent that they keep some of these bigger guys around.