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Originally Posted by Bingo
This isn't Team Canada.
I think you're getting too hung up on finding an elite equivalent to play with Gaudreau and Monahan when the truth is most team's aren't built that way in a salary cap world.
Hell even in the past teams weren't built that way. Colin Patterson was the long time winger for Mullen and Gilmour, Bossy and Trottier had a great Ferland equivalent in Clark Gillies who was big and could chip in but wasn't a true star player.
You get two guys on each of the top three lines, and then find a guy that can play with each pair and go with it.
Milan Lucic had 80 some points in his first 200 games before finding the back of the net with icetime and opportunity.
Ferland could do the same, or he could settle into a third line role. Time will tell.
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Really bad example:
Gillies had 25 goals in his 20 year old rookie season (2nd on his team) playing before Trottier got there. He added 34 and 33 goal seasons (both high totals on the Islanders) before Bossy got there.