The defence-oriented assignment was no problem for Drew Stafford.
For the first 19 games of the Winnipeg Jets season, he was matched with Adam Lowry and locker-room next-door neighbour Alex Burmistrov to take on some major responsibilities when it came to matchups with the opposition.
The results early were good — in particular Stafford’s five goals in the first eight games — but in the team’s recent six-game losing slide, a lot of zeroes.
So when the day came to reconfigure the lines, the 30-year-old Minnesotan not only smiled, he showed Jets coach Paul Maurice why it was a great idea.