imo there was something unsaid going on with the Kostin situation in the playoffs. It made no sense that he wasn't playing, so much so that it had to something we don't know
With Desharnais, I totally stand by Woody on that one, and it turned out to be the smart thing to do. He definitely had a rough few games, but if you pull him out, I doubt he recovers. Desharnais was the right player to give a long leash to because he is that huge, RD that both series we played just needed. As our team lost that Vegas series, Desharnais actually had recovered a lot and was a great contributor so Woody was vindicated on that one.
Someone brought up Holloway, but I disagree there. Just like how fans bashed Woody for not playing Skinner, I'm totally okay with taking it slow with young players.
People also brought up his defensive systems, that I didn't take much stock in. I always figured the real issue is top pair RD, and that Ceci just was more of a 2nd pair guy at best. However, I've seen some videos on it and some blogs, etc, and I'm coming around to the idea that our D needs much better structure, not just for the Dmen but for the team. Especially with that one quote, I think from Marchessault, where he said that getting to the net was pretty simple