I believe he played mostly on the the left side in the 'Q'. Probably a case of the timid French speaking Quebecois kid wanting to please the coach by volunteering for unfavorable assignments.
I doubt that was the reasoning. Cull has his own ideas it's been evidenced by all kinds of groupings that make you scratch your head. Just for example he has yet to put together his best 5 players on a single PP.
He just will not put his best 3 forwards on the ice together even when down a goal. Now that he no longer has his best forwards, he tries a line of the best he's got. Megna/Darcy/Boucher. Not so hot, huh. In 18 games Goldobin/Chaput/Boucher were together only twice.
Subban, the team's best PP point man, was never used on the first unit and usually not the second unit either. He got his time on the last 20 seconds or so with the regular line Cull wanted to go 5 on 5 when the PP ended.
His OT trios are just mind boggling. The deadliest shooter on the team is Boucher yet he played the first 30 seconds or so and never got another turn tonight. Other forwards he used were Darcy, Hamilton, Carcone, Woods, Bancks, and Megna for a flash.
It's like he is playing the OT to get to the Shootout and leave it up to Demko to find another way to win the game for him. The Comets are 1-2 in games that end in OT. They are 3-1 in shootouts. The Comets 3 shootout wins are tied with 3 other teams for the most in the league so their is some factual backup to my theory. However, Bachman has one of those wins and the loss is Demko's so the idea of Demko being the lucky horseshoe isn't locked in steel just yet. Maybe it's just get to the Shootout period, not just Thacher, but Bachman also?