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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
I look at Monahan / Gaudreau as an indisputable top tier tandem. They simply have their skill sets mixed up a bit.
You traditionally want a big, strong, playmaker as your #1 C. Someone who will 'drive the play'.
You traditionally want a shifty sniper as your #1 winger.
Well, we've got a big, strong sniper as our top C and a shifty playmaker as our top winger. It just so happens that our winger 'drives the play'.
It still checks off all of the boxes for an elite tandem ... albeit not in the 'traditional' sense.
For that reason I am 100% ok with Monahan as our #1 C.
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I agree. I also think that Dube would be a good complement to Backlund and Frolik as a true shut down line with some offense. That means a line with Tkachuk really being a driver of a line. Pair him either with Jankowski and a star winger or perhaps a higher calibre centre (O'Reilly or the like) and maybe Bennett or Ferland on the other wing.