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I'm not a big fan of moving Myers to LD, because I'm not sure he'll perform in that role and I think Buff would need a differ type of partner. Still, I think Maurice would like to try it for a while and it does a couple of good things for the line-up...
1) It allows Morrissey-Trouba to play much bigger minutes. With Myers on RD, it cut into Trouba's 5v5 ice-time. Give Trouba and extra 1.5-2.0 minutes to run him up to 23 minutes or so.
2) It gives Poolman regular ice-time on 3rd pair with a decent partner, like Kulikov, or maybe Morrow. Interestingly, Poolman had very good numbers in about 60 minutes alongside Morrow last season.
I think Poolman is the wild card in the Jets' D situation. If he shows that he can play top-4 minutes with a good partner, it opens up a lot of different options for the Jets going forward.
I think you have nailed it.
Hope I'm wrong and Myers thrives at 2LD, but I think that chance is remote - at best.
Poolman needs to take a pretty big step forward to be able to play 2nd pair IMO, regardless of partner. I think we will see it in TC though.