It's the same shit that Bylsma used to do. Remember when Kunitz-Malkin-Neal was insanely dominant and then Sid came back and Kunitz was immediately taken from Malkin?
I watch a senator standing still (around his blue line on a breakout) waiting for the defender to get him the puck on the boards, and a penguin was pressing on the check and he gave it right to the guy standing still and the penguin (dont remember name) skated right up to him and turned away instead of finishing his hit. Doesn't matter his name because this is common practice.
He only spent a couple games with Cooke and Kennedy. And even the plural may be generous.
Regardless, my original point was that it's crazy that Guentzel is never tried with Malkin and Zucker never with Crosby. What's the worst that could happen? We lose a game? That's already happening. We didn't even deserve a point last night.
He was, due to extenuating circumstances and the complete and utter league-wide dominance of a line. That had much more to do with not breaking up Kunitz-Malkin-Neal than a willingness to break up Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis. Bad example.
It could just be that he makes his line preferences known when the coaches talk to him and that's why they stubbornly stick to these combos against all sense.
It could just be that he makes his line preferences known when the coaches talk to him and that's why they stubbornly stick to these combos against all sense.
Like I doubt Sid is saying give me xyz wingers or else. But probably Sullivan asks him for input his linemates and Sid says oh I think Rusty and Jake would go well with my game and there you have it.
I think that's all it is. It's not Sid demanding anything, it's coaches giving his opinions too much weight.
Or the alternative is that the coaching staff genuinely thinks these line combos are the best for the team and they aren't relying on Sid's opinion to inform those decisions.
But I don't particularly care why they're doing it. I just want them to stop and do something - anything - else
I still wish we had Filip.
Yeah he had him with Cullen on the 4th line and inadvertently allowed Cullen to mentor him a little and made him feel comfortable, then Jake started producing again and has been attached to Crosby's hip ever since.
I fixed 2015. It was indeed Horny.
Sullivan has had 5 years worth of explosive turds to layer on there that predates most of the names you want to list.
Bylsma's ace was the three headed monster with Kunitz, Crosby, Malkin, that was the ace he had. If anything Bylsma would juggle stuff far too much when things didn't work, but then would go back to status quo after a few games. Sullivan will almost exclusively do the same swaps only and then would only do changes based on injuries but would plug in new guys with the same usage as the previous player.
