Funny comment considering three of those had just under 10 mins in a game that was played largely on special teams or 4v4.
Ice time wasn’t even that lopsided if people would actually look at the numbers. Only two forwards broke 15mins at ES(Connor and Stastny) and they were also the only two to break 20 mins overall. Considering how much of the game wasn’t at 5v5 the management of ice time was largely much better then recent years.
Hey, I wonder how much time Anaheim was playing special teams...
I don't think
@ThinIce61's point is about even strength minutes; it's workload. You're right, though - it's been worse in the past. That's a pretty low bar.
Maurice could have tried others on the PP, especially when we weren't getting results. It's not like we don't have guys with better hands/offense than Copp and Lurch...
And WTF was Wheeler, KFC, and Stats even doing on the PK at all??
I'm sure we'll get some bounces next game and frustration levels will drop here. This was a winnable game, and I'll take any little optimizational edge - better deployment is one of those little things that is actually controllable...
Maurice has mentioned in the past that he only looks at ice time during the intermissions, IIRC. If that's still true, we need someone that tracks it and gives him a heads-up.