Pre-Game Talk: Sens @ Leafs Feb 1. (7 p.m. Eastern)

[Micklebot]

Nothing's stopping you from playing your 4th line fewer minutes regardless of who's in it, but why purposely degrade its quality (and jumble all the other lines as well in this case)?

Here's an example:

MoToR
Michalek - Spezza - Ziba
Greening - Smith - Condra
Conacher - Da Costa - Neil <- play this line 4 minutes if you want the other lines to get more ice time.

I think we can both agree Kassian can provide a dynamic that DaCosta is simply incapable of. It's just not one you need more than 4-5 mins of a game.

As I said, you really don't lose much if anything playing Kassian in lieu of SDC if you increment the other centers mins, and you gain an enforcer. I wouldn't want to do it every game, but I'm not about to whine about it being done every now and then.

 

[PatrickEaves]

GDT Here:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1595779