Reaves holds Dubinsky accountable by dumping pucks in and putting Werenski through the glass. Send the message, if you do it to my players, I will do it to yours. Dubinsky isn't going to write checks that Werenski has to cash.
That would do it if he was on ice to get those hits often enough. And having someone being effective at that playing say 12 minutes a game would do the trick. But here is the problem. Reaves was averaging in POs 7:46, 7:30, 6:08, 8:43, 6:10, 9:34 TOI/gp. So questions are: Is that enough time to 'punish' them? Or would you be okay for him to play more, like 11+ minutes a game in POs? Would he be productive enough, defensively responsible enough to justify that TOI?
Keep in mind that last two POs guys on the PIT 4th line were good enough to chip in 1 pt every 3-6 games. And only two guys on PIT with under 11 minutes per game were
- Sundqvist (2 gp, 9:17/gp)
- Archibald (4 gp, 7:51/gp)
In other words they were injury call ups, not someone penciled there if the roster was fully healthy.
What a pathetic post. Maybe you should post the rest of what I wrote? Nah, that doesn't fit your pacifist narrative does it?
Since when is 1 pt in 36 PO games (Reaves) almost as good as 7 pts in 35 PO games (Kuhnhackl) or 3 pts in 20 PO games (Rowney)? Don't get me wrong, I do think that physical play can be
extremely effective. But for me being able to score at a rate of 1 pt per 4-5 games or better along with that physical game would be prerequisite. Otherwise I just do not see a justification for playing him enough for that physical aspect of his game to be effective in any way.
This is patently untrue. We saw that when Cooke and Ruutu were in the lineup and when Armstrong and Kunitz were known for leveling people on the forecheck.
Cooke was also able to score 1 pt every 2.5 games, Armstrong 1pt every 3 games (and yes, he managed to do that even without being on line without Crosby) and Ruuttu 1 pt every 4-5 games. And I think there is no one who would be pissed off if they traded for Kunitz (during 2009-2014) like player.