MarnerElite
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- Feb 20, 2019
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nah AJ is a perfect fit imo. does a bit of everything and can create on his own. Auston and Willy are great on the boards already.
It's not that they are bad at the boards(both guys are very strong and hard to move off the puck once they actually get the puck and start the cycle)..It's that AJ is on that line as the player who is supposed to be always first to the puck(and you see this almost every play they make). I don't know what the possession numbers are for that line but they don't seem to have the puck for very long and what i notice is that when AJ goes in to retrieve the puck, he rarely comes up with it so usually it's the other team coming out of the zone fairly easily and then we're defending instead of cycling in their end. It's why most of us have been saying(including you i believe) that the line isn't working very well and the only reason it's working right now is the amount of work that Willy and Auston are putting in(what will happen during games when it's not so wide open?). As soon as the other 2(Willy and Matty) start even slacking a bit, that line will be useless because Johnsson is basically Brown with higher scoring ability.