Surprised that Sean Couturier was centering the fourth line on Tuesday and appears poised to stay there entering a pivotal weekend for the club?
John Tortorella doesn't think you should be.
"(Scott Laughton) was a fourth line center. (Earlier in the year) you guys were shocked he was a fourth line (center)," Tortorella pointed out. "I don’t do by – and it’s certainly not a disrespect in any fashion to the player -- I’m not gonna run the bench based on what people think about you, or where you sit as a veteran guy, a captain. I just don’t do it that way.”
Even if it's the highest paid player on the team, who was receiving 20+ minutes a night as recently as as a month ago, and just had the "C"...
