As a defenseman, all boots wants his forwards to do is keep possession and hopefully score. He's happy to stay back and grind against opposing players to get the puck pack and to make a nice stretch pass to his guys up front but he doesn't want to be quickly switching up gears after Bergy gives up a puck in a juicy turnover so he has to race back to help out Dionne on their own zone. If his forwards can keep it, he'll do his best to pinch to keep the puck in play or block lanes to make it more difficult for others to get them off the puck. Boots isn't running the bench by any means but if he can get out there for a nice shift in which he makes a stretch pass to break out and give and go the puck while he's in the offensive zone for a good scoring chance then that's a good shift! If he's out there and constantly chasing the puck away from the other team then it gets old fast.