Looks like we're taking advantage of their 28th ranked home PP with some more offensive forwards on the PK. Ribs really needs to be more aggressive on a play like that. He's got the hands and he's facing Tanguay whose name isn't exactly synonymous with grit.
Benn is obviously better than Ribeiro imo. Do they load up the Ribs line because Ribs can't do much without good wingers and Benn is a one man wrecking machine out there? I just feel bad for Benn because he's out there with a 3rd liner and a 4th liner for his wings.
How good would be Benn be if he didn't play with such garbage?
Benn is obviously better than Ribeiro imo. Do they load up the Ribs line because Ribs can't do much without good wingers and Benn is a one man wrecking machine out there? I just feel bad for Benn because he's out there with a 3rd liner and a 4th liner for his wings.
Well Benn was out for a while and Loui-Ribs-Ryder was the only thing going for us. So it's natural that it'll stick together for a while. There really aren't many other great options (other than my glorious hypothetical Ott-Benn-Wandell line which is too awesome to ever be allowed to happen) at the moment since we only have four top-6 forwards.
Benn is obviously better than Ribeiro imo. Do they load up the Ribs line because Ribs can't do much without good wingers and Benn is a one man wrecking machine out there? I just feel bad for Benn because he's out there with a 3rd liner and a 4th liner for his wings.
How good would be Benn be if he didn't play with such garbage?
At this point I think its just that Ryder and Eriksson have been on fire while Benn was out, and not wanting to shuffle what was working. And like you said, Benn makes his linemates better and can do a lot of the heavy lifting to create scoring chances on his own. Ribs not so much.
