People may hate Hartley's line blender, but I think line blenders are what allow teams to win games at the very end of series. I see it with Quenneville all the time, and we saw Hartley go full line blender last year in game 6 when we were down 2-0 and then 3-0. Perhaps Boudreau waits too long to shuffle his lines in game 6 / 7 scenarios? Or perhaps he fails to effectively cut the ice time of depth players?
I'd be interested to see what he does different from a guy like Sutter or Quenneville in terms of player usage in elimination games.
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