Peat
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- Jun 14, 2016
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I'm curious to see if the Penguins ever give Lafferty a look higher up in the lineup, specifically on Crosby's RW. He had very similar AHL numbers in his full seasons to Simon (49 points in 70 games for Lafferty, 48 games in 68 games and 46 points in 70 games for Simon), so I don't know why Simon would be okay there but Lafferty wouldn't.
You can let Lafferty, Simon, Poulin and maybe Rodrigues battle it out for Crosby's RW spot next year and just run with the hot hand.
Because Simon's game is freakishly well adapted to playing with Crosby and Lafferty's probably isn't. I'm not saying don't do it, hell I imagine they will and I'm curious as to what happens, but they do play pretty different games and that's more important than the numbers. Right now Lafferty looks like a McCann without the shot or early Rust to me - straight line, taking what's in front of them, impatient - and they've been pretty inconsistent fits with Crosby.