Regardless of production or not, Knies is definitely an NHL player. I don’t think he’d gain a whole lot playing in the AHL.
The issue/mistake comes from our coach and expecting Knies to carry a third line with two extremely one dimensional players… Kampf defensively and Domi offensively.
Knies has never really “carried” a line in his career and has always been more of right hand man.
It really comes back to Keefe really misusing him.
Knies - Matthews - Marner
Bertuzzi - Tavares - Nylander
OR
Bertuzzi - Matthews - Nylander
Knies - Tavares - Marner
I’d really like to see something like this for a couple games. Or if you really want to shake things up and not cater to the core four.
Knies - Matthews - Bertuzzi
Domi - Tavares - Marner
Jarnkrok - Holmberg - Nylander