Owen Power plays 23:38 a night.

He's not on the 3rd pair

Krebs isn't going to be dealt by Adams just yet, regardless of the current roster issues that are happening, because he was the key piece that reportedly held up any trade with Vegas for Eichel happening sooner (it was reported that Tuch was always going to be an agreed-upon piece but the Knights didn't want to give up Krebs and the Sabres weren't going to settle without him). While they've been publicly promoting Mittelstadt as one of their key players, he was inherited from Botterill's tenure and is 2 years older than Krebs.

Only observation is that protected 1st rounders that bump to the following years if top 10, almost always have to be unprotected for the next year.

The trade is fine but trading for Chychrun just to stick Power on the third is pointless. The two should be the second pair

fixed

Samuelsson - Dahlin
Chychrun - Power
Jokiharju - Lyubushkin

Our coach uses some defenders with changing places during games. Dahlin and Samuelsson are constantly changing places depending on the situation, I think the same would be with a pair of Chychrun - Power.

Power has been switching up a bit more to over the last 5 or so games.

Our coach likes to roll lines why not roll defensive pairing - I guess playing over 20 min is a sign of greatness but what does that have to do with winning? if the Samuelsson Dahlin pair played 21 min, the Power Jokiharu pair played 20 min and Chychrun Lybushkin pair played 19min, would you complain if we were winning?

lol just keep making the 1sts top 10 protected and they'll never actually get it! I see what you did there

2023 1st if in top 10, then 2024 1st
2024 1st if in top 10, then 2025 1st
2025 1st if in top 10, then 2026 1st
etc.

No need to worry, chych will get hurt his first game and then Power will be back on the 2nd pair