Blue Notes

Should be an intriguing game in Toronto tomorrah.

In the first major reshufflng of the season, coach Tom Renney blew up his forward lines in practice and juggled his defensive pairings (one was D Sandis Ozolinsh, who would be making his season debut, with Aaron Ward).

Petr Prucha, for whom we lobbied for more ice time here yesterday, was moved up to Jaromir Jagr's line with LW Martin Straka shifting to center. Another line had C Blair Betts with Brendan Shanahan on his right and C Matt Cullen on his left. Rookie LW Nigel Dawes was on a third line with Jason Ward and centered by Michael Nylander and Ryan Hollweg centered a fouth line with RW Adam Hall and Marcel Hossa and Colton Orr taking turns on the left side.

On the backline, Marek Malik---who had two careless penalties Wednesday against Nashville and several defensive lapses---apparently will be scratched. Darius Kasparaitis was paired with Karel Rachunek and Michal Rozsival---Malik's long-time partner---was with Fedor Tyutin.

"We're 3-4, we've got to get this working," said Renney, who barked at his troops at mid-ice during practice because they failed to backcheck: "Don't (bleepin') stand around here," he scolded.