Enough handouts for Reichel. He needs to play well in Rockford to earn a spot with the big club at this point.
No one on the third and fourth lines (really, two fourth lines) are scoring so they're being gifted free ice time. In addition, I've see posters being perfectly fine with "Bertuzzi having his typical slow thirty game start". I wanna see these lines:
Foligno - Bedard - TT
Kurashev - Nazar - Bertuzzi
Hall - Reichel - AA
Mikheyev - Dickinson - Donato
Maroon Anderson
Smith waivers
The Hawks "being competitive" is an illusion because they aren't getting scoring outside of the top line. In addition, the front office knows the Hawks aren't a bubble team so LR shouldn't be allowed to coach the Hawks like they are. The Hawks can lose relatively higher scoring games, or relatively lower scoring games. I wanna see higher scoring games. The suggested third line is not a lock to be a scoring machine, but it has a greater chance to be one than either of the bottom lines being iced now.