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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
The issue is that the #12 forward chews up icetime of the guys that you suggest are the ones we should be kept up at night about.
So, it matters actually. It's less to do with him performing or not as it is with the opportunity cost of dead icetime (or highly improbable lost production time).
It's not irrelevant. Every minute of icetime for star players matters, actually.
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Well the fourth line is going to get 8-10 minutes on any team. In Calgary it get move into the 11 minute mark for sure, but we're talking about a minute.
Lucic vs the alternative is the differential which I'm suggesting is pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
But I'm not even arguing, I think he's lost a step, and since the team is long off the run where it was working (better lately) I'm happy to have him come out of the lineup.
Just can't imagine it being the thing I complain about every single day.