Who adds what?
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Advantages: more ice time for the big three centers, and the bottom two forwards can shift in for whoever, whenever the coaches see someone flagging, so that ice time is given out based on who's doing well. Defensemen have fewer total minutes and an old guy like Hainsey stays a little fresher.
Disadvantages: Coaches are focusing on line rotation all year and not so much on matchups or player development. They're less effective at the important stuff, and they still get a few too many men penalties.
Tampa made this work in the playoffs a couple years ago due to who was working well and who wasn't in terms of their player personnel. They made it to the conference finals with 11 and 7, so it's a perfectly valid way to play. The much more common and traditional way to deal with this type of personnel ratio, without messing up the lineup and making it the focus of the coaching staff all year is just to dress a defender as a wing at evens, and then move them around at the start of penalty kills if necessary, so that by the time you're back at evens, they're off, and back in their normal spot on the forwards side of the bench.