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The_Gipper said:so when the oppositions top line is on the ice for 20-25 mins a game, you're suggesting that we defend them with a different pairing each time?
Well, first of all, there were only two forwards in the entire league who averaged more than 22 minutes a night so an opposition's top line playing 25 minutes a night is not something that comes up much but more to the point it's not like Phaneuf or any defenseman was playing exclusively against another team's top line. 3:24 of Phaneuf's ice time, for instance, is on the power-play. Then there's things like player fatigue, 50% of the games where the other team has the last change and some of Phaneuf's shifts being ones where he's counted on offensively and he's probably seeing no more than 12-15 minutes of the other teams top line per night at most.
So I'm not really suggesting anything other than what's happening anyway.