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Originally Posted by Wild GM
I agree Ferland should be on the top line. But with him out the pickings are slim for choices.
it was worth trying and in the third they reverted back.
But I don't see that one change in the line up to be the reason they lost.
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It's not the only reason, sure. But IMO it was definitely a contributing factor. Our bottom-9 all out-possessed the Stars all night, but didn't generate a lot of offense. That's been their M.O. all season - it shouldn't surprise anyone at this point in the year. We rely heavily on our top line to score a disproportionate amount of our goals, and neutering them for 2/3rds of the game takes away our best offensive weapon, and the only reliable method of scoring goals we've had all year.
We simply don't have enough pieces of our team operating at a high level to be tinkering with the ones that already are working. If we're going to make the playoffs, it'll be by riding Gaudreau-Monahan-X's offence, the 3M line's shutdown ability, Giordano-Hamilton's dominant 2-way play, and praying we get something positive out of the rest of the lineup.