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Originally Posted by JJ1532

Alright then, how about:

Monahan has been doing much of the heavy lifting himself. Backlund has started to chip in and does the brunt of the defensive work, but Monahan is getting the toughest assignments almost every night. He has the 2nd most ice time out of any of our forwards, he take the most draws. Age aside, the fact that he's managed to chip in 40 points(probably finishing on around 50-55) is to his credit. Bennett hopefully over the next 2 years will start to take some of the burden off Monahan, which should help.

As for Hamilton, he's had pretty poor defensive partners all season. He had Gio when Gio was terrible, had Engellend when he got demoted to the 3rd pairing, now he's stuck with either Russell or Engellend again. Get him a decent partner to play with who's advanced stats aren't terrible and then see what he does.

End of the day, with the way things are shaping up, neither look like they will be our main guys going forward. When we start to get legitimate concerns about Bennett, Gaudreau and Brodie, then I'll start to worry.

good points all around no disagreement here.