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Mike Babcock: “The backup goalie position is a hard position mentally”

When you look at the balance of your club, how important has that been in managing the minutes right from front to back as you proceed in the season toward the Spring?

Babcock: We like to do that for sure. You look at a team like Tampa, who has got the ability to really play their lines, and that’s what we’d like to do, for sure. We think it is the best long-term. Sometimes, I don’t know if you notice, but in the games we lose, we overplay our guys because we are chasing the game.