Well it’s pretty clear that Peters has been trying to do some shuffling with lines 2-4 to get something to stick. The opportunities have been there, so when a player bitches about ice time it’s not like they seized the chances they had. So I don’t have a lot of compassion for those complaints.
Problem is despite the stars at the top of the lineup there isn’t that much flexibility. Basically you can’t have two slow players on each line. And Monahan and Tkachuk already claim those spots on the top two lines. That’s why Neal hasn’t worked out on either of the two top lines in the third spot. So the first and second line work best with speed players, specifically Lindholm and Bennett.
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