Fri 3/9/12 3:52 AM

Coach Bruce Boudreau is trying to limit the ice time of his two star forwards Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf. Perry and Getzlaf were second and fifth last season in ice time among forwards and are third and fourth respectively this season, trailing only Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise of the Devils. "If they're not on the power play, it's about 50 seconds now," Boudreau said of their time per shift. "I'd still like it to get it to 45 seconds. But it's really a misleading stat. Because if you want to match and you pull them off in 10 seconds, that brings all the time down. They could still stay out for a minute and a half the next time and you've got two 45-second shifts. So you get the book at the end of the day and you look at how many shifts they had that are a minute or longer. It's a lot less than it was. We're trying to be more of a four-line team than a three-line team. You need short shifts." For the record, Getzlaf played 22:23 minutes Thursday while Perry was on the ice 21:36 minutes.