The lines are all over the place, but Don Granato said it’s important to work on the pairs now, “We’ve asked a lot of guys to forgo familiarity and ease through training camp and partner up with younger players, but today in the game, specifically on D, these are the guys going back for pucks and these are situations where you can run pretty hard, so the familiarity there is important to me.
“I want to make sure they’re in a good spot, that there is some continuity, you retrieve pucks, you break out of your zone and there’s the potential for physical harm, so that’s an area that I don’t want to mess around with.”
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