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Well, he kind of was our 3rd line center last night. Both Barzal and Roy received more minutes than Strome, and Strome's line received the least amount of minutes in the 20 minute OT (actually, Strome received more ice time than only McLeod, Raddysh, Jost and Speers). So Ducharme obviously went to his line less last night as the game went on and it became apparent who his top guys were.
ya, he kinda was, that is true, but my idea wasn't of 2 'inferior' players out performing him and forcing the coach to allocate TOI accordingly. With all due respect to Roy, and he performed well, but when your 4th. line center outperforms your 1st. line center, that's a problem.
My idea was a true #1 center in the mold of McDavid
1C McDavid
2C _______ I leave it blank because that #2 center didn't emerge. I had hoped it would be Barzal. but he had his issues as well.
3C Strome
4C Stevens (on my roster I had Roy 4th. line RW.
I made my opinions clear on Strome from last summer all the way to December camp on how I thought things would play out. As far as Strome is concerned, that played exactly as I predicted it would, fortunately for Team Canada, that played out a bit better than I predicted. Pleased as punch to come within a snipe on a penalty shot/or save from a gold medal. Happy with a silver.
It is what it is, as they say. There's no Christmas turkey left. It's all done with...on to Buffalo we go.
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