Player Discussion: Ehlers

[Buffdog]

Just play the guy 17-19 min per night and all the parties will be happy. Extra shift here or there. 1-2 shifts per game make huge difference.

These 12-14 TOI's are very worrisome and bad... I know that you need to play Lowry line a lot. But using your best or second best winger only 12-14 min is maddening.

There will be games with lots of PKs where his icetime will end up lower than people want. At the end of the day, now that he's on PP1, should we just be looking at his 5v5 time?

 

[surixon]

There will be games with lots of PKs where his icetime will end up lower than people want. At the end of the day, now that he's on PP1, should we just be looking at his 5v5 time?

It's really only home games that are the issue. We hard match too much and it impacts the second line the most. On the road the second line gets enough minutes.

Given our performance on the road when we roll our lines more is juat as good I think our coaching can ease off the matchups a bit.

Top line is also still taking far too long of shifts.

 

[Adam da bomb]

It's really only home games that are the issue. We hard match too much and it impacts the second line the most. On the road the second line gets enough minutes.

Given our performance on the road when we roll our lines more is juat as good I think our coaching can ease off the matchups a bit.

Top line is also still taking far too long of shifts.

Don’t really see an issue I see 11 and 1.

 

[surixon]

Don’t really see an issue I see 11 and 1.

There is never am issue when teams win but if ot stops that is when these things happen. Murat flat out said Ehlers complained about his minutes last year and in the article flat out stated he wasn't happy with 12 or so.

Part of keeping a team winning is keeping your players happy and I'd think keeping Nik happy should be right up there with keeping Mark and KC happy.