Avery to Fourth Line
Via the beat writers’ twitters (literally all of them), Sean Avery was moved to the fourth line during practice yesterday, skating with Jody Shelley, Brian Boyle, Enver Lisin, and Aaron Voros. Brandon Prust was moved up to a line with Erik Christensen and Chris Drury. This makes line change #13,427 on the year, thus our slogan “More consistent than John Tortorella’s lines”. These will presumably be the lines for tonight’s game against Atlanta.
When Avery was playing under Tom Renney, he was getting solid minutes, and was able to play his game. His game involves getting into a rhythm offensively while disrupting the opposing stars. Under Tortorella, his time has slowly diminished, thus eliminating the “Avery Factor”. Under the new regime, Avery is just another $2 million fourth liner.
Really don’t know what to make of that one.
By Matt, March 12, 2010 @ 10:45 am
I think the Torts experiment is over. Give him the rest of the season, and then it’s time to look for a new guy.
It’s not just cause of this avery move, but this is certainly a microcosm of the way he’s so hot and cold with players and lines.
No one ever gets time to gel, and it’s so all over the place, the players can’t get into a groove.
Jordan Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I’m not on board for just giving him to the end of the year. He doesn’t have a very talented roster to work with. Granted, he isn’t doing that well with the talent he does have.
He has been underwhelming though. His tough attitude is nearly non-existent, his “system” is pretty much not showing up on a nightly basis, and he’s had a few gaffes, but he’s not horrible.
Matt Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 11:48 am
In the past year or so, whatever it is, I’ve not been excited over an extended period of time, at all.
Clean house, sather, torts, ect…blow it up, cause the roster has pieces.