expatriatedtexan
Habitual Line Stepper
- Aug 17, 2005
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It doesn't matter if Kadri can and can't be trusted. He's simply not good enough to drive his own line. That is why our second line has been doomed. We don't have a single player on a line outside of the top one that can do anything on their own. You simply can not put all your eggs in one basket come playoff time. The fact that we could do it during the regular season doesn't mean shit. It's a completely different game come playoffs and the Avs are trying to treat the playoffs like a regular season. It won't work.Over the years, I've been a proponent of breaking up the top line and spreading the talent around. I mean, we've seen MacKinnon put up over a point-per-game playing with Matt Calvert and Joonas Donskoi for a good stretch of over 10 games. I've never understood Bednar's penchant for never having a plan B besides those 3 guys together and when he does break them up - it's so short lived that it doesn't seem to make a difference - and then he puts them back together. You gotta have a plan B that you know can work.
But I think that all starts with finding a better #2C than Kadri. Sakic is going to have to upgrade the position because Kadri can't be trusted to stay in the lineup when it matters most. Until he solves that issue, it's pretty much all a moot point.
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