In the wake of his team's third straight road loss, Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle is mixing up the forward lines. Anaheim's offensive woes lately have been, flat out offensive. They have scored 3 or less goals in 12 of the last 14 games including eight outings of one score or less. That is unacceptable.

Carlyle isn't limiting his changes to a line or two, all four will be different. Ondrej Kase will sit in the pressbox as the odd forward out. An interesting choice considering it puts Jared Boll in the lineup when Buffalo's Evander Kane is questionable to play tonight. On the back end, Sami Vatanen misses his third straight game with a lower body injury. He is replaced by Brandon Montour. John Gibson starts in goal, looking to break his two game losing streak. Here is tonight's lineup:

Forwards
Vermette-Getzlaf-Silfverberg
Ritchie-Rakell-Perry
Cogliano-Kesler-Shaw
Cramarosa-Thomson-Boll

Defensemen
Fowler-Montour
Lindholm-Manson
Theodore-Bieksa

Goalies
Gibson
Bernier

I'll post the part two of the readers poll tomorrow.

-Ed

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