We've decided that our organizational focus regarding our 4th line is to be the last stop in the careers of plugs instead. Reaves, Simmons, ZAR, Clifford. We seem absolutely intent on forcing 1-2 non NHL calibre players onto our 4th line at any given time instead of using it as a place to break in kids.
Which kind of guts me because we had part of the right idea once upon a time in bringing in long in the tooth skill players (Spezza is the best 4th liner we've had in this era, by a lot imo) and playing a guy like that in a sheltered role with 2 kids like Moore, Marchment, Robertson, Steeves, Holmberg, etc, etc would be the way to go. But yeah, we decided a bunch of years ago that we need to play a certain way to win and our 4th line being low event pluggy was a necessity. It's fucking stupid.
We're just not a patient organization.