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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
Right because that's exactly what I said. 
We have a list of forwards good on the PK. |
Okay we'll cut our four best PK options:
Backlund
Frolik
Bennett
Jankowski
from this conversation for starters.
Who on this team is as good an aggressive and mobile PKer as Markus Granlund? Not Matt Stajan, who plays a passive game that hurt us a lot last year. The three names that should come to mind are:
Garnet Hathaway
Freddie Hamilton
Curtis Lazar
Markus Granlund had more goals last year (19) than these three players combined had points (5+2+4 = 11).
You can rationalize about "toughness", "hitting", "physicality" all you want but the closest substitute for a forward to putting the puck in the back of the net is drawing power plays, and the only guy in that trio who draws PPs is Hathaway. We could easily have had Granlund and Hathaway on the same team playing opposite wings.