Can we please flip Kalinin and Boosh??
Please?
I've been asking this for 3 games now, maybe even 4.
It's not a guarantee that it will work out better offensively, but Boucher has shown to be a better offensive player than Kalinin already, albeit in a shorter sample size. Only Tootoo and Gionta have fewer points or on pace for fewer points this season, out of all the regular forwards in the lineup. That's not counting Ruutu or Matteau, who barely play at all. And Palmieri has been drier at offense than the state of California since that line has been together. And we haven't scored an even strength goal in over 12 full periods now.
Boucher made some nice defensive plays last game. I'm a firm believer that Zajac can make any halfway competent defensive forward look good playing on his line.
I don't wanna say he's to defensive forwards what Crosby is to offensive forwards, but I think he can get less than ideal defensive forwards to be look good defensively. Just as Crosby can get average forwards to produce better offense than what they otherwise can.
After all, does everyone remember who Tootoo was playing with last year when he didn't look completely dreadful defensively? Ever since then, Tootoo has looked like a complete liability. And I don't remember him looking too much better last year before he started playing with Zajac. I remember quite a few people also using the phrase that Zajac had to ''Babysit'' Tootoo.
