I guess the only thing to hope is that Plekanec will play better with more ice time given that the decrease to
4th line minutes was causing him issues with getting into the flow of the game.
Not exact matches
I'm ok with these
lines, but slide Laughts up to the 3rd and let the
4th be a real
4th, where they only play 6
minutes...
Looking at overall 5v5 TOI it appears Blashill leaned heavily on the top
line, roughly split
minutes between the 2nd and 3rd
lines, and limited the
4th line to 5ish
minutes.
The last 2 games we saw 4
lines that could sustain pressure and the ice time was distributed across all 4
lines vs having the
4th line only playing 5
minutes.
With the game on the
line on
4th and goal with less than two
minutes left, the San Francisco 49ers put the ball in Colin Kaepernick's hands and it backfired.
Mantha 36 points AA 31 points (big chunk center on
4th line) Abby 26 points (big chunk on shutdown
lines) Helm 27 points (big chunk on shutdown
lines) Frk 16 points (PP specialist with very limited even strength
minutes) LGD 15 points (
4th line shutdown guy)