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Originally Posted by looooob
Is this true? Wouldn’t be the first time I’m wrong but usually forwards that are top 6 or top 9 in ice time aren’t the ones that get healthy scratched. There are exceptions of course.
Are there ice time stats for the playoffs that year?
Middle 6 isn’t my favorite term anyway. Certainly on that team, if Peplinski was top 9 in ice time as you say that’s equating him to a guy like Loob or Nieuwendyk who were also “middle six”. Unless you don’t consider the Gilmour line the top line. But again I haven’t seen ice time stats.
IMO Lanny and Tim Hunter were clear bottom of the roster forwards all year and Peplinski joined them by end of the playoffs. Peplinski was finished by the following year. 07-19-2021 08:24 PM
sorry glitch to quote feature.
it's pretty interesting - in the regular season the Flames had 3 LWs all finish with exactly 38 points - Patterson who played with Mullen and Gilmour , Roberts who played with Nieuwendyk and Loob and then Pepper
now I think as the year went on and even into the playoffs there was a reshuffling of the depth chart- Fleury showed up half way through, then MacLellan at the deadline. Pepper drifted down the depth chart a bit as it went along
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My point that got us all into this was that even if Dube ends up as a middle sixer, he could still be captain - the best year in franchise history had three bottom* sixers as co=captains (caveat being that Lanny was a former top line player).
I think a good captain doesn't need to be a top player, but he has to be able to say "look at my play - I'm contributing and you should too". and they have to have some years behind them, so they can speak to the team and refs from experience.
IMO the players should choose but subject to a team veto (to be used sparingly).