"What was Hitch thinking?!?!?"
Back at the start of the season, Tom Timmermann from the St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote about "moneypuck" and the rise of analytics in the NHL. More specifically, he wrote about how the St. Louis Blues and Hitchcock have been using analytics. As the season progressed the Blues had some very successful line combinations, like the STL line for instance. But when the team would struggle within a game or during a slump Hitchcock would experiment with new line combos. Some clicked but most of them just seemed odd. As these different line combinations kept happening the opening two paragraphs from Timmermann's article kept bouncing around in my head.