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Originally Posted by flamesforcup
I agree its unlikely but i dont see any other semi-realistic scenario for a #1c. And u dont make that trade if u dont think he will re-sign
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Nothing wrong with Monahan as our #1 center. Bennett really showed significant improvement since March, he's going to keep getting better. Backlund is great as #2 right now. We're good up the middle. It's goaltending that killed us this year.
Elliott's poor start hurt our chances of home ice or at least our chances of playing somebody other than Anaheim. Johnson and Elliott were both weak at the beginning and thankfully Johnson got hot in November so Elliott could take another month or so to figure out his game. Johnson got cold again after Elliott finally got hot and it was like the Kipper era all over again, we couldn't rely on our backup to win games anymore. Then we get to the playoffs and goaltending was huge in our loss. We need to fix goaltending and hope that our #1LW learns to play hockey and stop pouting.