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Carlyle Wants A Skating Group - So He Benches Marchant
by Paul on 12/04/07 at 06:38 PM ET
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from the Ducks Blog at the OC Register,
Todd Marchant admitted it was a tough pill to swallow Sunday when he was a healthy scratch for only the second time in his 14-year career.
“As a player, I’m not happy about it, but the only thing I can do is control what I can control,”
Marchant has been moved around the forward spots and played on mulitple lines this season. Coach Randy Carlyle said he would like to see more tenacity from Marchant, a former Olympian who has been known as one of the faster skaters in the NHL.
“Todd Marchant’s a skating hockey player, and he’s got to be on the puck all the time,” Carlyle said. “My expectations for our whole group are that we have to more of a skating group.”
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Marchant is very fast and awesome in the faceoff circle. But he is limited in his scoring skills so is relegated to a checking role. Carlyle wants an energy 4th line made up of Sutherby, May, Parros, and Miller. Marchant has been hurt last season and this season, so really the 4th line is not really suited for him. He is not deft enough with the puck to skate with the top 2 lines, so unless one of the checking 3rd line goes down with an injury or is moved off, he is really going to lose his ice time. His contract is rather large ($2.518mil), so he’s not really trade-bait. That’s too bad because he would be a great asset to any team who saw the Ducks’ Checking line last year in the playoffs and wanted to assemble another just like it.
Posted by Itlan on 12/04/07 at 07:40 PM ET