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- Aug 18, 2005
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For free? Sure.
Problem is those guys come at a premium. Unless it was a futures deal, we'd have to trade more skill going out than coming in. I like our chances better maximizing skill/speed because that's what we already have a lot of. We can hide a guy like Johnsson or Ennis on the 3rd/4th line to feast on bad match-ups without hurting the top-6 at all. Same for the other side of the coin, if you had physical forwards on every line, that's going to wear a team down over a playoff series. Having just one or two guys on your 3rd line wouldn't really change anything
Mediocre skill/mediocre physicality doesn't win anything, you have to pick one and do it better than anyone else. Unless you get lucky get players who have both.
Not really. Ever 5 man unit or every line just has to outplay who they are matched against. Where is the advantage to rolling out identical lines? You add the best pieces you can and play with them. Look at the Hawks Cup winners and the changes they made. They didn't pick one or the other they won and then they moved costly pieces to let them take another run at it. The more physical lineup could have won again, Buff and Ladd could still play, but they had to move somebody. Kadri is effective when he is physical. They need effective players, not clones.
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