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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
I don't think you try to play lesser players more. If you've got 3 elite defencemen, you put together an excellent top 4 and play them at least 3/4 of the game.
Obviously you don't want to wear them out, but top dmen usually are very comfortable at 23-25 minutes a game. When you play them less their play can actually suffer.
Same thing up front....while you don't want to put your 3 dangerous players on one line, you also don't want to spread them out across 4 lines. You want your best players to get as much ice time as they can comfortably handle.
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You put that better than I would, but I was about to say the same thing.
You don't want "resting" to become "under-utilization"