When the lines went dry the obvious choice would be to return to the ones that worked during the winning streak. They got a small bump before the Minnesota game, those lines died during that game and then he stuck with it the rest of the whole trip. Now they're home and rather than do something obvious like swap Pelletier for Kuzmenko and Duher for Kirkland, then rearrange the top 6, he does this. Its a shake up, so we'll see. And maybe this gives Pelletier a shot of confidence playing with those two but way to likley kill Zary's production, at least on paper.
Also, have we not seen enough Huberdeau-Kadri failures to know this doesn't work long term?
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