The best way to suffocate a game at the end of it is to put the puck into the offensive zone and continue to put pressure with your best players. What players on the team have better stats at creating turnovers and moving the puck up the ice and cycling in the offensive zone?
Backlund and his line should be on the ice over Stajan at the end of a tight game 10 times out of 10. Only issue is Tkachuk I guess but you could even mix the line at the end of the game and put out a different guy but Stajan is most definitely the wrong guy in that situation.
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