There's not one team in the East I favor us against if Johnson is getting 18 minutes per game.
JJ received 15 minutes a game in the POs... almost a full minute less than Gudbranson and 2:40 less than Pettersson. And as bad as he's been at times, he wasn't the reason why we got swept, or really even why we lost.
I think though we have to recognize that if Johnson is on this roster he's on the ice and most likely the second pair with Schultz. We can talk about him being in the press box this season all we want but he sat exactly once this season. The dude has a talent for getting coaches to trust him in big minutes.
Not when we're healthy and things are on the line. JJ played 3 PO games for us and his minutes went down each and every game (14:30, 13, 12 at ES).
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