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Originally Posted by Infinit47
I thought the team played very well overall. Mangi getting hot, Backlund seems to be playing with way more confidence this year. Huberdeau really needs to start making things happen. I thought Kadri was actually better tonight.
It's frustrating that Sutter is refusing to really limit his 4th line to "rest" his top three lines. They are not in a playoff spot and their best players will be extra extra rested if they only get 16 minutes a night and then miss the playoffs.
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You’re discounting the intangibles that some combination of Lucic, Rooney, Lewis, and Ritchie bring to the team.
Need to make sure three of those guys dress and play a lot every night , especially Lucic.
And if they get caved in while they are on the ice it doesn’t matter anyways, because the 4th line isn’t supposed to do anything positive and are supposed to be bad anyways. Except not actually bad because intangibles and that’s good even if not actually measurable in any way except old hockey guy talk.