Cowrd, I will never not poats about doodie.
Something I don't get about ZAR's usage -- if he's this defensive genius, how come we never use him on special teams? Honest question here. But he gets no PK time, he's under 10 minutes a night and we don't use him in high-pressure defensive situations anymore.
I know that Boyle would be also under 10 minutes a night too except for his PKing, but I really wonder if that 4th line is as good as we think.
The argumenet against Z-G-C is that Carter's 2way play is not good this year, plus it's more minutes for a 37 year old. So, you're basically asking Zohorna to be ZAR and be the defensive consciousness on that line, and I don't think the coaching staff is nearly comfortable enough with him there.
But I don't mind the idea in theory of moving Carter to the wing.
E-rod has hit the McCann problem where he looks miles better at C, has had lots of of success there this year, but for whatever reason he's just not seen as a centerman by the coaching staff. So, he's just not going to get that 3C spot, or even 4C, no matter how good he looks lthere.
Lastly, I have a hard time seeing ZAR on the off-wing.
ZAR gets special teams time? He's our 4th most used PKing forward on a nightly basis, and was last night as well, despite being in the box for one of two kills.
I would also add that
a) Under 10 minutes a night minus PKing is pretty usual for a 4th liner; Stepan and Martinook are there for Carolina, Raddysh and Katchouk for Tampa, etc.etc.
b) Without having read the thread, I don't think anyone here thinks a 4th line of our 12th to 14th forwards is that good? Its ceiling is a bit of decent possession hockey in the opposition zone while everyone else catches their breath and the occasional goal from Boyle to counteract the occasional goal it concedes. Not that this hugely matters if the three lines ahead of it are doing well but like everyone else, I have questions about those lines.
Thank you for not drinking the look aid.Kraken have beat Washington, Carolina, Florida and the Wild this season. You guys acting like we just can win every game is silly. We've won 18 of 20.
Absolute lol, I was reading the wrong player line on naturalstattrick. I take that back. Serves me right for posting during a work meeting.
I get that lots of teams run their 4th lines on a short leash, but I don't think we used to have it THAT short. My opinion is that it's not ideal bench management for an older group of players to keep that 4th line so short, so if possible, I'd rather get guys that we can run for 10-12 minutes a night there and shorten Carter, Geno, and Sid's ice time a bit when necessary. Also, again, I just don't remember seeing ZAR or the defensive lines out to protect a lead in the last minutes very much and I'm curious as to when we stopped doing that-- because that was kind of a fixture on the B2B teams.
Again, I feel like the Pens have like 90% of the parts they need to create 4 great lines and we just struggle with the inertia of our current lines.
Deportation the only answer.Holy f*** that was pathetic.
Geno is just dogshit.
f***ing losers.
Deportation the only answer.
Gulag. More culturally aligned.I'm pretty sure Devil's Island has been shut down.
Well, we certainly shouldn't double shift Sid like we used to.
The change looks like it was 2016-2017, because in 2015-2016, Cullen was averaging 13:53 minutes a night (Bonino was just a few shifts higher at 15 something). Fehr was around 12, and Kuhnhakl was like 12:12. (Weirdly enough Sheary was getting like 9 a night that year for half the year.) Now granted that's total TOI, but the trend's there.
So the first cup, we leaned on those two lines really hard, and then we backed off it a bit. I kind of wish we'd go back to that though, when healthy, especially with Carter as 3C.