Found November 03, 2009 on Puck Daddy:
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How often is a team captain with the highest salary and most celebrity unceremoniously dropped from the top line to a spot between two checking forwards?As we noted yesterday in the Puck Headlines, that's what happened to Vincent Lecavalier(notes) this week with the Tampa Bay Lightning, as Coach Rick Tocchet made him the center between noted Art Ross threats Drew Miller(notes) and Stephane Veilleux(notes). Lecavalier's offensive struggles this season have been well-documented -- he has 1 goal and is a minus-8 for the season -- but Tocchet took aim at the totality of Vinny's game:"Not finishing checks, cheating a little bit, the little things that I will not let...It's unacceptable," Tocchet said. "That's the one thing I came into this year, if I see your game slipping - if you're not scoring, I can live with it - but if you're turning away from checks, and not battling down low defensively, if you're constantly on the ice and teams are ...
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