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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
A Bennett Janko Tkachuk line has never existed. All three of them have had a career calling card of being offensively minded without being defensive liabilities.
As it stands, Janko and Bennett are asked to play defense first, and Tkachuk is on the shutdown line. Never asked to play to their strengths, and I worry that it's hurting their development.
I would just like to see a classic Backlund led shutdown third line, and let the second line roll out with 30 shots a night, and let them be a wrecking ball.
Why not?
We may be upset at the lack of production from the bottom six, but perhaps our shutdown line shouldn't carry so much of the offense in the first place.
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What does that look like? Frolik-Backlund-Shore, I guess.
But what makes you think Jankowski has better offence than Backlund?