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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
I think, without a doubt, Gio need to be playing bottom 4 minutes. He's 37.
Give him the Chara treatment.
Otherwise he is going to struggle mightily, and that's on the coaching staff, not on him.
Seems like management are not prepared to plan for his decline.
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I'm not so sure about that. We have Hanifin and Valimaki on the roster - as the season goes, their minutes will climb, Gio's will shrink.
I think they should full on jump to the finish line on it though for sure. During 5v5, we should see Hanifin-Andersson, Valimaki-
Andersson Tanev, Giordano-Nesterov.
If you look at last night:
Noah Hanifin:
EV: 20:30
SH: 1:21
PP: 0:00
Mark Giordano:
EV: 14:54
SH: 3:26
PP: 1:30
Juuso Valimaki:
EV: 13:04
SH: 1:30
PP: 0:03
So during even strength, Giordano is already LHD #2. As Valimaki gains more traction, I imagine Giordano's EV time will fade a bit more. Hopefully his PK time is reduced as well (although Ward pretty openly said Giordano and Tanev will be playing PK together...)