Marotte Marauder
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His skating is no worse than Rozsival, and in addition to a good shot, he has better offensive instincts and a better first-pass out of the zone than anybody on the Blackhawks back end short of Keith and Seabrook.
His defensive play is flawed, no doubt. Which is why you only give him sheltered minutes.
Q sheltered the hell out of Rundblad all season. He still managed an average of 13 minutes a night. Between those 13 minutes and 10 minutes from Timo, that's all the minutes you need chewed up right there.
Tough to shelter against a team in WCF, they must be pretty good.
Those minutes look very doable on paper, but they will be very angst filled minutes, at least for me.
I'm fine with Timo when the puck is in the Ozone, when it leaves, my BP elevates.