The Florida Panthers inked Derek MacKenzie to a two-year extension in the 2016 offseason, shortly before naming him captain. After a bad year for the whole team there are questions on what MacKenzie’s future with the team may be.
It’s pretty black and white, your fourth liners aren’t your goal scorers that’s why they play on the last line. However, the fact remained that the Panthers top nine couldn’t score consistently as well. This magnified the horrible possession numbers and production of the fourth line.
Tom Rowe’s deployment of the line ups were equally horrible and played a good part in them being well, bad.