During his NHL career, former Montreal Canadiens forward Claude Lemieux was an agitator who would play with the boundaries of what was legal or not to get under his opponents’ skin, but his impact in playoff hockey sometimes goes unnoticed.
Recently, we learned that Tim Stützle had changed agents. Ben Hankinson has been replaced by Claude Lemieux. Often, a player changes agent when something big is coming up.
It is not always the superstars who make the biggest impact in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Sometimes it is the depth player, the backup goalie or the forgotten trade deadline acquisition who is the difference between winning and losing.