Right, but what's going to happen against McDavid? Or Pettersson? Or Scheifele? Or anyone else's top line? Not to mention that we've seen this before... Brown had the most W ice time last year, and Tierney had the most C ice time after Pageau. The whole idea of adding scoring line veterans you can trust on the ice like Dadonov/Stepan/Galchenyuk is to allow your scoring lines to be used more aggressively... not just hide behind players like Brown/Tierney out of a perceived lack of options.
- khawk
That’s the problem with having 3 guys under 22 on the same line. They can’t pull the matchup against the other top lines, they’d get demolished. Sooooo, they play together, but the ice time is lower based on matchups.
The alternative is to split them up.....I Lomé this better.