There’s no easy way to say this about a guy who has made an entire career out of scoring wicked goals with relative ease, but as it stands right now, Nick Suzuki and Mike Hoffman do not work on the same line.
Hoffman thrives best as a shoot-only option and as a power play weapon, and right now in Montreal he’s being attached to Suzuki on the Habs’ top line.
The above tweet illustrates why that’s been such a horrible idea so far this season. That little red box living next to the “bad” label is Hoffman away from Suzuki, and even with Montreal’s top scorer, Hoffman isn’t exactly lighting things up.