Perron and Amadio play a far better style of "playoff" game than Tarasenko now does and are well suited for this run. Once Perron sorted out his personal and health issues he has been good and Amadio has been solid defensively all year.
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Tarasenko is a better playoff performer than Perron in almost every tangible metric. Tarasenko can score without needing a PP and despite his speed declining, is still a higher IQ player than Perron. He's not afraid of contact (he had 46 hits in 24 playoff games last season).
I'm hyped that Perron has played great as of late, but his actual play and production is between what he's been the last few games and the first few games he's played.
Perron was never going to be on PP1, so he is slotted where he was expected to slot.
It seems like the fit with Cozens and Bath is a good one so I don't expect him to be moved too soon. I certainly don't see him relegated to the 4th line. Given how his season has gone, he is just getting up to game speed now, I give him a ton of credit for how he has endured his troubles and been a true pro.
It sucks for Zetterlund but he joined a team with the top 3 lines rolling, so he will have to wait it out. His time will come.
They have pretty much been the same statistically in the playoffs, in different roles. More goals for Tarasenko, more assists for Perron.
Tarasenko has a 0.60ppg, 1.43 hits per game (46 from last playoffs and 50 from cup run account for ~55% of his total hits)
Perron has 0.58ppg, 1.50 hits per game.
I think the one thing Perron has had on Tarasenko throughout their careers is his IQ. He is always one of the smartest guys on the ice, knows where to be, where to put the puck.
I think his ES ice time might decrease next year as he gets older, not that he'll be relegated to the 3rd or 4th line.
Weird thing there is that Detroit has a demonstrably poorer record with Kane in the lineup. They started last season at something like 14-7-3 at the beginning of December, were 8th in the league only 1 point behind Florida, and once Kane finally joined the team they went 2-8-1. And there's been a few other times he's been out since, and their record was always better. They're sub .500 pts% with him overall and in the bonus point era, that's lottery pick territory.
Guy is a cup winning, soon to be Hall of Famer so maybe it's an oddity, but sometimes these guys come in and upset the dynamic of a team. Like "oooh we have Patrick Kane now", and he gets more minutes than he should, or other guys think they need to play to his strengths because he's a legend. He is a legend but that's not who they have right now.
Perron and Amadio were brought in for a specific purpose and they have delivered. Tarasenko was just another shining toy from Dorion.
