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Originally Posted by Textcritic
When Francis asked his question about Gaudreau Gulutzen responded by talking quite a bit about how his top line will spend considerable time playing against other top lines. This made me think about how utterly the Crosby line dismantled the Thornton line in the SC Finals, and how this was a pro-active coaching tactic that Sullivan employed to his advantage.
I think if there is a team that Gulutzen wants to emulate, based on his responses that team is probably this year's vintage of the Penguins.
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This is spot on, watching the Crosby line was something else, the Crosby line exploited every weakness the Thornton line had, part of the problem was that the San Jose coach made no adjustments to fix that or it may have been that Pens coach was that much better and Glen comes from the game mould as the Pens coach.
I think if we want the Flames top line to play like Crosby's line, we need someone big there, David Backes would be a good fit there. I think you can Backes and get some for the Bennett line(will be very hard to), that you can have too line with the potential to do that.