I'll give Gulutzan the benefit of the doubt here. These things are often more fluid during actual games than they appear on paper. I predict we'll see Gio and Brodie paired together on double shifts to take some of the minutes off Engelland and Wideman.
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Originally Posted by Zarley
I'm not a fan of this at all - hopefully it's a short term experiment. It's reminiscent of Brent Sutter's horrible management of the defence pairings and that's not a good thing. Perhaps this is the mark of an inexperienced coach?
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The problem with Sutter was that he got married to defensive pairings and line combinations that clearly didn't work (Bouw-Butler, Regehr-Phaneuf, Jokinen-Iggy). The harder they flopped, the harder he banged on those square pegs. Gulutzan sounds like he's a bit more tactical than that.