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Originally Posted by Bingo
At this point I have to concur on the Rooney confusion.
Maybe they don't want to have two guys trying to learn the position at the same time?
But the fourth line is getting completely filled in and Rooney is 2nd last for forwards in xGA60 while on the PK, so he's not a specialist either.
Now the last place player is Backlund, so really it's the top pair of PK. Maybe that position (more time / against the opposition's first unit) would hurt a replacement equally as much or more?
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Yeah the 9 GA at 5v5 is way more alarming than the PK number for Rooney personally.
The PK number is more an indictment of the coaching staff IMO, because I don't understand why they are so deadset on forcing Backlund-Rooney as a PK pair that hasn't really seemed to work very well together.
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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
He is also 47% on faceoffs, if he was just good at that it would make sense to keep him in. I know faceoffs are a team wide problem, but Rooney just isn't good at anything.
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Yeah he's really not been great in any role this season.
Not a strong FO guy, 5v5 play has been very leaky defensively, PK hasn't been great.
Conroy hasn't made many mistakes but keeping all of Rooney, Hanley, and Barrie on the roster and waiving Schwindt is probably one of them. As Scwindt has become a pretty serviceable 4th line C/RW for the Knights.