In the 82 game season of the National Hockey League, it’s not about right now, it’s about what right now means for two weeks from now. Being that the league has such a long season, it’s hard to form knee-jerk reactions to anything without losing the scale of the problem. Case and point, David Quinn healthy scratching players for not giving maximum effort.
In the short term, it does not make a ton of sense taking Pavel Buchnevich out of the lineup in favor of Cody McLeod. Dating back to 2014, McLeod has 58 points, in the three years that Buchnevich was in the league, he has more than that.