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Originally Posted by Infinit47
I think Huberdeau has earned a chance to play with a different centre. When he was with Lindholm before he was in the middle of learning a new system. Let them try playing together now.
As for your last paragraph. The deployment of the 4th line goes counter to playing the lines that are "on". Lucic gets his minutes no matter what.
The team is having trouble scoring, and Sutter's solution is to create a third PP unit to get the 4th line out there for the last 15-25 seconds.
Sutter sure spends a lot of time "sending messages" to his players. It's stupid and I think is an ego thing for him.
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Well the 4th line is going to get some minutes, every team has a 4th line and most of them usually play roughly 10 minutes give or take. No team should have a 3rd line that plays more minutes than the 1st and 2nd line though. But that is the case on this team because the top 2 lines haven't deserved the additional ice time. It's actually a case of Sutter playing lines that earned it.
As for the powerplay, I think it's just a lost cause at this point. They've tried just about everything and nothing has gained any traction. It might be that they have to find someone to add to make this thing tick sort of like Kevin Fiala whose helped turn the King's PP around completely (27th to 5th).
Finally as for Huberdeau, yeah sure, play him with whoever. The season is all but lost and he's played with everyone, so, I'd be open to anything.