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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
He get's no credit from me on that.
He spent 20 games mixing lines and he didn't give lines enough consistency to even find chemistry. It was only when Honzek got hurt that it forced him to stop rotating people around the line up and stick with a consistent top 9.
Part of it is roster construction as the team realistically had 11 top 9 forwards, and it was only Honzek getting hurt, and then Klapka being relegated to full time 4th line role that locked in a consistent top 9, but honestly some of the line combinations were head scratching through the first 20 games and IMO had a lot to do with the forward groups struggles.
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Honzek-Backlund-Coleman was a consistent line - maybe the only one. If anything, his injury made Huska move a player or two around even more, not make lines more consistent.