Luke Richardson has just announced major lineup changes involving Connor Bedard and more

From Ben Pope's piece: «Of Bedard's roughly 242 minutes of five-on-five ice time, he has spent 57% of that time with Teuvo Teräväinen, 42% with Nick Foligno, 27% with [Philipp] Kurashev, 18% with Lukas Reichel, 16% with Ryan Donato, 13% with Taylor Hall, 9% with Ilya Mikheyev and 7% with Tyler Bertuzzi.»

«It's our job to do that, but as a player, you have to find a way to get pucks to the net, no matter who you play with and that's your job and it's our job to find who maybe works the best in whatever scenario,» Richardson said. «Kurshy probably had a slower start to the season than he would like. I know he did some video with the coaches this week and worked on the skills coach on some aspects of his game and I think he took a step last game. I think it wasn't just his goal in overtime, I think his overall game is much better, so maybe that gets him back with Connor and even Teuvo and sometimes maybe Nick. I think there's a rotation there depending on what we need against a certain team. And that might be a good thing, they might be excited to be back together and they had some good chemistry last year and some good success. So, it's something definitely to look at, for sure.»
The positive? Kurashev and Bedard have legitimate chemistry from last season. As evidenced below with MoneyPuck, Bedard's best pairing last season had an XG of 50.9%.



Joining them will be Teuvo Teravainen:



Natural Stat trick will illustrate whose been a better partner for Bedard(hint it's not Lukas Reichel):