Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour has some interesting decisions coming up regarding the placement of his players this season.<\/p>\n
The coach has been well known for not numbering his lines and sometimes seems to move players from line to line almost at will.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Adam Gold, Brind\u2019Amour denied moving players around very much and seemed to indicate that too much is made about the construction of lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gets talked about way more than we do \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. I think that is a little overdone because everyone is looking for something to talk about.\u201d (about the 4 minute mark)<\/p>\n
Andrei Svechnikov might disagree with his coach a bit here.<\/p>\n
After the Russian forward was moved to the first line with Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis during the post season, his offensive production improved. He led the team with 8 goals in 15 playoff games.<\/p>\n
Jarvis and Aho also did well scoring 16 and 15 points each, respectively.<\/p>\n
During the regular season, Svechnikov played most often with Aho and Jack Roslovic, (177 minutes). He had 8 goals scored in that time, for an average of one goal scored every 22 minutes.<\/p>\n
(Speaking of Roslovic, he has yet to have a contract at the time of this posting).<\/p>\n
Next, the winger played the most with Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook, (133 minutes). He had 9 goals during that time for an average of one goal scored every 13 minutes.<\/p>\n
The third most minutes were played with Martin Necas and Jesperi Kotkaniemi where he only scored one goal in 106 total minutes.<\/p>\n
Looking at this chart, he does not seem to have much success playing with \u201cKK\u201d.<\/p>\n