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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It's not that the 4th liners are playing poorly - they aren't, they've all been good - it's that they are getting too much ice time. Two problems with that:
1) the 4th liners getting a lot of ice time, will lead to a team that plays a low creativity, grinding game.
2) the top 6 guys aren't getting enough ice time to get rolling.
IMO, pointing out that Ritchie and Lewis have been good, and are among the leaders in points, is completely missing the issue, which is that they shouldn't be getting enough ice time for that to happen.
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I think Lewis is getting top nine ice time (or was) and yeah that's the issue, it's the gap they had coming into camp, it's the gap that still exists.
But Ritchie has produced from his 4th line spot not by being pushed up the roster.
Though couldn't for the life of me understand why he got powerplay minutes against Nashville. yikes.