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Originally Posted by sch19lks
I don’t want Zary or Pospisil on the fourth line. Even if they’re playing centre
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I think the whole idea of a player being unable to develop on the 4th line is a bit outdated.
Lots of good teams have successful integrated talent on the 4th line, it just means the 4th line can't be a young guy with two talentless grinders and needs to be a more offensive line and I think Pelletier and Lomberg as line mates is a good line still.
Generally there was about 48 minutes of 5v5 TOI per game,
Last season Kadri and Backlund played 14 minutes each at 5v5, and Pospisil and Zary played about 12 minutes each.
Let's say you were to play the 4 lines something like:
Kadri: 13 minutes
Backlund : 12 minutes
Zary/Pospisil w/ Huberdeau: 12 minutes
Zary/Pospsil (4th line): 11 minutes
Is that really the end of the world...I think people over estimate the value of the extra 2-4 minutes of 5v5 ice time.
It's more how much PP and PK time they'd get and I think you could have both on the second unit.
Unit 1: Kuzmenko, Kadri, Shrangovich, Huberdeau
Unit 2: Zary, Pospisil, Mantha, Coronado
Personally I'd rather have both Zary and Pospisil being developed as centers instead of them being on the wing,
Even just long term ignoring those two you have: Huberdeau, Sharangovich, Coronado, Honzek, Basha, Gridin, Stromgren and others vying for top 9 winger spots.
Way better off developing Zary and Pospisil as centers if that's what they want and fits their skill sets.