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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
As bad as the 3rd pairing and 4th lines have been, that's on the coach to not play them more then 10 minutes a game. Other playoff teams shorten the bench and give their top forwards 20+ mins and their top D 25+mins of icetime. GG is obsessed with rolling all the lines all game long. That might work well in various stretches of the regular season when you can afford to do that. But now is not that time. Weak players should be seeing <8 mins and the top guns being ridden hard.
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I feel like I must be watching a different game from everyone else. The bottom lines have been decent, even good, the top lines have only produced on the power play, honourable mention to backlund and his shorty.
Gaudreau leads the team in giveaways through 3 games and is a -2.
Through 3 games gaudreau has played basically twice as many minutes as the fourth line, he's played basically a full period more than brouwer.
Just how much time should he be playing at this point?