I guess the fancy stats will tell us, but I think Tuch has played more minutes with Mitts than he has with Tage this season.
The "first line" of Skinner-Tage-Tuch should really be finished as a line. They no longer work together. But what other line can handle Skinner the floater?
Tage wants to be set up to shoot, if no one is doing that then he does it all himself, or tries too. All Skinner can do is shoot, and Tuch has to try to figure out this mess.
This "first line" is a one big reason we started poorly. The degradation of the first line, the injury to Quinn, and the 3 headed goalie monster - DG never got them on ready or on track. Injuries, slow starts, just not ready to play. The team has been playing better since UPL emerged, he gives then a chance.
If the team was scoring and had an average PP, they would be in the thick of the wildcard race.