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Originally Posted by Itse
Giordano-Brodie
Wideman-Russell
Butler/Billins/Breen/Smith-Smid
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Having Smid gives us more options to cut down minutes on guys that are struggling, or maybe had to play crazy minutes the first night of a back-to-back. This is nice.
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And maybe most importantly he'll get a ton of PK time. Right now with Giordano out it's been Wideman, Brodie, Butler and Russell making up the PK units. It's no surprise they are 2nd last in the league when it comes to killing off penalties (surprisingly it's Chicago in dead last). Wont be shocked to see him get up to 4 minutes a night on particularly whistle-happy days. So even if he does get stuck playing on the bottom pairing, first it should allow Hartley to play the bottom pairing a bit more, but his PK time should end up bringing him to a respectable 18-20 minutes a night I would think.