"I wasn’t there myself, but sources close to the situation tell me that at today’s noon practice he had Scott Nichol on a line with Joe Thornton and Dany Heatley. Must be thinking, hey, if Nichol made Benn Ferriero look that good on the one goal against the Capitals, just think what he could do setting up the two big guns. Or something like that.
That also created a second line of Ryane Clowe, Patrick Marleau and Devin Setoguchi, but hard to know if McLellan already has made up his mind to start Saturday night’s game against the Islanders with those reconstructed lines or was shaking things up on an off day skate in Syosset."
Hard to believe it's true because Joe is a much better center than Nichol and he probably isn't much as a winger. I would have explored a Marleau-Nichol-Clowe line myself but we'll see how this all turns out.
Anyways, if Nichol and Thornton do play on a line together, you have to give them their props for working to become good teammates:
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