Why isn't Little playing center?
Is he hurt or something?
I don't think he's hurt. (that was last year)
If Hayes is going to play with Ehlers / Connor (or Laine) then you only have 2 choices for Little.
Move him to 4C where he won't get enough ice time or push him to the wing with Lowry.
Little started his career as a RW and played some there last year in the playoffs.
He's taken plenty of faceoffs while playing RW with Lowry.
It's pretty smart to have their 2 best faceoff guys (opposite strong sides) together on the shutdown line.
Maurice probably thought that Little wouldn't get as much ice time as he would want to give them on the 4th and decided to push him to RW to keep him in the top 9.
Copp's been pretty good at 4C and MP and JR seem to have some chemistry with him.
Aside from last game that trio has looked pretty impressive recently.
People can call for Lowry's line to be the 4th line all they want but as long as a game is close or we are protecting a lead the Lowry line will see basically 2nd line minutes. Placing a former 1C on that line isn't a bad thing.
My favorite part of the delusional Little is poisoning Laine posts above was the "and the reason statsny was traded for was little is not a
center line center"
He's not a center line center?
Who is?