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Originally Posted by Bingo
Is he though?
When I look at ice time it looks pretty clear he's not rolling four lines at all.
Tkachuk and Lindholm have averaged 13+
Five other players (Gaudreau, Backlund, Monahan, Mangiapane and Leivo) have been around 12.
Dube and Bennett are around 11
Lucic at 9
Ryan and Nordstrom at 7
That's not rolling lines and it's pretty close every NHL team's deployment.
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This. Every single coach I ever heard talks about rolling 4 lines but they only ever do it in a runaway win.
Last game I'm pretty sure sure Ward had full intentions of maxing Backlund's time because of McDavid. So he knew the 4th would get hardly anything. it's not shocking that he played the only regular on that line, Nordstrom, a little more.