Which role? He brings nothing on that line. Not good defensively, not good offensively, not digging pucks, zero forecheck. He's very slow, puck often goes nowhere when it's on his stick.
I know that he's supposedly good defensive power forward, but he's not in reality, or just rarely. He's a blue collar player, yes, but he's terribly ineffective.
Coaching stuff just put together players that played together once, but it doesn't mean it works. Ovechkin looks better with Datsyuk than with Kuznetsov, Malkin looks better without Kulemin than with him. Are you Russian? During the WC in Czech Rep. when the line was Kulemin-Malkin-Mozyakin, even commentators (Gimaev) mentioned how passes are dying on Kulemin stick and that Malkin and Mozykin would do better with someone else. They have done well as a line during lockout in KHL, but it doesn't mean they would do the same in international competition.
I'm sure Kuznetsov or Anisimov would do better in his place, just because of their hockey sense.
