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Originally Posted by New Era
I'm not sure that would work. Backlund can't skate with him. I think you have to tear a page out of the Gretzky playbook and match him up with a defenseman whose job it is to lay a hit or a stick on him every time he comes up the ice. Go full Neil Sheehy on him. I would say use Brodie, because he has the skating ability to keep up with him, but Brodie is Mr. Pylon right now. Maybe go with a double team, and have the center (regardless of which line) hold him up through the zone and force him to the boards, then have Hamonic/Stone lay the body on him at the blueline. McDavid tends to disappear when the physicality picks up.
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Hamilton would be best D to match up. He can skate, has the reach, and is the biggest.