Don't want to sound any false alarms, but anyone know why he only played 14 minutes on Saturday?

I need to choose 2 between him, Selanne and Lundy but if he was injured then I don't have to decide.

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I would imagine it's because there were a lot of penalties taken by the Penguins on Saturday. If you look at the boxscore, you will see his EV toi and PP TOI are totally normal, however players gained a lot of ice-time on him by killing penalties. Some players [i.e. Adams, Vitale etc.] had around 6-7 minutes of SH ice-time.

Boxscore:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=2011020424

I wouldn't be worried at all. Roll him with supreme confidence. Penguins are on a short homestand, and if you look at Neal's splits, you will notice he scores WAY more at home.

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C: Getzlaf, Backes(RW),B. Richards,
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Good point, didn't notice all the SH time. Even Malkin only played 17 min. Thanks.

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Forwards: Neal / Iginla / Nash / Richards / Stepan / Roy / Higgins
Defense: Del Zotto / Garrison
Goalies: Lundqvist

Yeah, Malkin was being played w/ Kunitz and Neal; he was also being double-shifted with another line, thus the slightly increased ice-time.

The Penguins have been one of the more disciplined teams in the NHL, in terms of Penalties taken, so I wouldn't exactly be counting on another game like Saturdays. Neal averages over 18+ min of ice-time per contest [w/ around 4:30 on the PP] and I would expect him closer to those totals more often than not.

Cheers.

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12 Team H2H Keeper (Keep 18)
3C, 3LW, 3RW, 3F, 6D, 2G, 5BN (IR)
G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, SOG, FoW // W, Sv%, GAA, SHO

C: Getzlaf, Backes(RW),B. Richards,
LW: Parise, Hall, Kunitz, Ladd, Marchand(C,LW)
RW: Kessel, Neal(LW) Hossa, Burrows(Lw)
D: Karlsson, Chara, Burns, Boyle
G: Rinne, M. Smith
Bn: Jussi Jokinen(C,LW), Cammalleri(C,LW), Weiss(C), Timonen, Visnosky

Farm: Kadri, Coyle, Gallagher, Järnkrok - Barrie, Trouba, Vatanen - Khudobin