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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I do actually understand what you are getting at, but one, you are bucketing both those players far to broadly, likely undermining Colborne's ability to play east/west, and likely trumping JG as more of an East/West player than he necessarily is.
And two, since when do North/South and East/West players not compliment each other? If anything, too much East/West or North/South on the same line is a bad thing, not having a nice balance on the line. Iginla and Tanguay lit it up together, and they were literally an North/South and East / West combo by your defineintions.
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You underestimate the extent to which they contrast I think. Colborne moves side to side hardly at all if ever, meaning his feet and direction of skating. Gaudreau is one of the fastest in the league at moving side to side and he excels when he catches other players standing still on broken plays. I do know how the playmaking of ability of Tanguay and the power forward aspects of Iginla went well but Gaudreau and Colborne don't match that dynamic much if at all.
Gaudreau was noticeable most shifts until he was paired with Colborne at which point it seems like he turned 180, obviously a small sample size and I could be wrong. It just seems that most of Gaudreau's opportunities involve moving around players with plays generated from the neutral zone where Colborne likes to pick up speed from the defensive end on a breakout so their styles kind of contrast and neither will be at their best at the same time.