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Originally Posted by Ferarri
The minutes issue has been discussed at length today. Last year Johnny averaged 18:34 minutes a game and Tkachuk 17:54. Huberdeau sits at just under 17 minutes (16:50). Lucic is averaging the lowest in his career and his stats are elevated by the fact that he did get second line minutes. His current average is 11:25. That's a considerable difference between the two players. Also, maybe people here have argued in Huberdeau's defense that if he was getting closer to 20 minutes a night that things would be different. That's essentially 3 minutes more for him whereas currently Huberdeau averages more than 5 minutes more than Lucic so woudn't that be an exceptional amount based on that logic?
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Yeah the fixation on Lucic's ice time is becoming silly.
He and whoever is on the fourth line is getting basically the NHL average fourth line minutes.
Huberdeau (top six player) have lost ice time to Backlund's line, not the fourth line, and they're by metrics the best line in hockey.