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Originally Posted by Bingo
If you look at each line as a singular thing sure. We all see that.
But the team ... the four lines as they are constructed have gone from 50.3% on the season before the change in high danger splits to 53.7% with these lines.
That's my point.
He may not be in love with Lucic on that line either, but the constructs of all four lines are giving the team some of it's best hockey of the season.
Fix line two and mess up lines 1,3 and 4.
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Well again - the blatantly obvious solution would be to move Ruzicka into the top nine, and Lucic out of it. A large increase in production and positive play from that 2nd line would far outweigh the small hit (if any) the 4th line would take during it's limited minutes.
Dramatically overplaying one player, all while underutilizing another for the simple sake of rolling four lines is nothing short of counter-productive, isn't it?
I don't think I am alone in that line of thinking.