tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
C'mon Tarheel. Where did I ever suggest he should have thrown Wallmark out there for 20 min? I never did. I said he could have easily played him a few more minutes than the 4:28 he did, given how poorly Ryan was playing and how the team wasn't scoring. You've been arguing that there's no way he could, his hands were tied, catch-22, etc... and that just doesn't hold water.
I agree, I would NOT expect him to play Wallmark 20 minutes. Heck, not even 15 minutes, but to say that he couldn't find a few more minutes when the team scored 1 fluke goal in 58 minutes and Ryan was abysmal, doesn't compute and is inconsistent with Peter's own messages. As I said earlier, if Lindy played like that and made that flub that cost a goal, Peters would have no issue stapling his ass to the 4th line.
Anyhow, I've said my piece.
If he's going to be on Skinner's line, he has to skate Skinner's shifts. How else would he do it?
I mean you could swap Ryan and Wallmark back and forth on each other's line, but that's insanely hard to do in real time during a game. You basically end up giving them the physical experience of being double-shifted. At most, maybe you can make that change during the third period break -- but again, you're putting a rookie in a position where if he can't handle it, he's about to have the nightmarish experience of being blamed for a key NHL loss 24 hours after being called up from the bus leagues.