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Originally Posted by JJ1532
Russell has had the 4th most ice time amongst defencemen in both play off games so far. Funny when all those people were getting worked up about him getting 1st line minutes not long after he first got traded.
He is Dallas' 4th defenceman, which is exactly what he was for us. You don't pay your 4th guy $5m a year.
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Not to split hairs, but Russell was our 3rd defenseman in terms of TOI and it wasn't really even close. We can argue about who was our 3rd best. I rather like Russell and believe he was under appreciated but that's an argument for another day.
His TOI in the playoffs is a lot less than it was for us so far, particularly his even strength TOI.
I suspect that tells us a lot about the coaches of the 2 teams, as well as the relative strength of their D corps.