You might be joking, but I was watching the Oilers game last night and, it might sound crazy, but I do see some McDavid in the way Hutson plays. Of course he's a lot less explosive, but the shiftiness, stick handling, the head always up and vison are kinda McDavid like imo
He plays the same way. Like you said, less explosive but very similar style and seemingly no off switch.
7 minutes gap is scary. I understand we were chasing Kings for almost 2 periods without Matheson, but we need to balance the usage. Barron looked OK, both Guhle and Xhekaj can also support offense. Looks like Robidas/MSL are one-trick ponny, overusing their top defenseman whether that is Matheson or Hutson.
That's because there is a single type of line on the Habs: offense. That means whatever the line, there need to be an offensive dmen on the back and MSL overuse his best to win which only tires them out and cause him to lose.
This is silly.
Hutson was the most played dmen at 5v5 before the Kings game. MSL apparently said they wanted to manage him because he's from the NCAA and they aren't used to 82 games and he's doing the total opposite right out of the gate even when Matheson was arouhd.
The very fact that you quoted him as saying they have to be aware of his usage undermines your whole point.
My point is that they are aware and are still doing it regardless. MSL did the same shit with Allen in his first season, he's been doing it with Matheson, he will do the same it with Monty this year because Primeau was shaky in one game. He was doing it to Struble until he hit a wall last year.
We are five games in. Again, we lost Matheson last night and he saw a spike in ice. It’s ridiculous to worry about this now.
We definately need a stabilizing force on the right side.
