I actually agree with Rierden sitting Kuzy and Jaskinin, especially Kuzy. I've seen several interviews where Kuzy talks about ice time being really important. If that's what motivates him, maybe taking it away from him will motivate him to use his head and stop taking so many lazy stick penalties.
I agree justwin! Especially for Kuzy!
He just got done, after the Calgary win, spouting off about getting more TOI, being important to him.
If you observed closely, he was uncommonly, a bit happy and jubilant in that post game interview. Very rare demeanor for him, in an interview, even with scoring the game winner!
It just adds fuel to my theory that, at most times, Kuzy generally appears to skate around with a kind of, “lack of interest”, vibe, as if standard NHL play is either “beneath” him, or bores him often!
On the rare times I DO see his face lite up on the ice, it is only when HE, or one of his linemates, makes some kind of fancy, super-talent, type pass, or goal, marked with unusual creativity!
Otherwise he, quite often, both looks and plays as though “regular” NHL hockey play, is just a TEDIOUS exercise, that he grudgingly endures because he has to, in order to experience the occasional, emotional, jolt he
[size=78%]gets from his naturally gifted talents. Just a thought![/size]Problem is it gnaws on my tolerance of him, as a fan!
Rush