 Kennedy now centered a line between Howie Meeker and Vic Lynn and they clicked " immediately " . These were the line @-@ mates Smythe had been trying to find for Kennedy since 1945 . Kennedy served as the playmaker between the fast skating and goal scoring of Meeker and Lynn . Meeker had just returned from the war and Lynn had come up from the American league and both were hungry to stay in the NHL . " We were very eager people " , Kennedy recalled . The line soon acquired the nickname the " KLM " line . 
