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Originally Posted by JJ1532
You want suspect decision making, why not look at Hitchcock only playing Tarasenko for 16:56. That was 5th most amongst the forwards. How on earth that guy isn't out for 20 minutes a night I don't know, he's by far their best forward.
They also showed a point last night at the end of the 2nd period where he was moaning at Hitchcock for not giving him much PP time, only got 8 seconds of the 1 minor the Hawks took.
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Because so far in these playoffs, Hitch has dispatched Tarasenko to start in the offensive zone 79.7% of the time. Last game, the Hawks were
dominant in nearly every aspect of the game, especially possession. Tarasenko is a liability defensively, so when every faceoff is being taken in the defensive zone, naturally Hitch isn't going to dispatch Tarasenko. That's why he only had 16:56 TOI.
In the regular season, Tarasenko starts in the offensive zone 66.1% of the time in the offensive zone. That's just what Tarasenko is. He's an offensive freak of nature with a lack of defensive abilities and that's the way Hitch uses him.