UPDATE: Lavy moved Jagr back to Giroux's line to start against CAL after indicating to us things would stay the same for now. Jagr wanted to move back ...
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So who needs more help right now up front: Danny Briere or Jaromir Jagr?
My vote there is Briere, who has not scored a goal in 15 games – longest drought as a Flyer.
I understand why Peter Laviolette moved Jagr off Claude Giroux’s unit to Briere’s line and swapped with Wayne Simmonds.
Jagr was coming off a flu, needed less minutes, and this was a way, as Lavy later said, of easing him back into the Flyers lineup.
Yet Jagr has remained on Briere’s line for 3 games now and has as many goals. I think he’s going to stay there for the foreseeable future.
Briere didn’t shy away from the fact he needs some help right now in getting his own game back in gear when I asked him about it.
Jagr was very confusing, however. At one point during a long interview with myself and Sam Carchidi I felt Jagr himself wasn’t sure of what he was trying to say to us.
He’s not happy his minutes are less with Briere, yet, if you check, they’re pretty much identical.
He wasn’t happy that he and Briere sometimes find themselves both in the same spots on the ice.
At the same time, he thinks he’s going to score more goals simply because he is shooting the puck more with Briere while admitting that when he played with Giroux, he was more the set-up guy.
Didn’t he say this month, however, that his goal was to help Giroux won the NHL scoring title and to do that, he needed to be the set-up guy for him?
Right after saying that, things went downhill for Jagr in terms of health with a lengthy flu, though he only missed one game but was bothered by it for more than a week.
The Flyers no longer run lines at the morning skate. Players tell me that they are sometimes surprised to go on the bench and hear their names called for different lines than they thought they were playing on.
I don’t see Simmonds moving off the G Line any time soon. Which means, I don’t see Jagr moving off Briere’s line, either.
“Besides the Giroux, Hartnell and Simmonds line, those three guys are scoring,” Briere told me. “But besides that, it’s been slim pickings. We’re all trying to find ways to score more goals.”
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