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Originally Posted by jonkaupp
I don’t disagree with that, ideally he would have spent some time in the AHL. But I don’t know who else he would have played Center with last year. Can’t break up 3M last year and playing with Backlund I think was crucial to Tkachuk being so good so fast. Maybe they should have let him play wing for another year before putting him at center. I don’t know. Regardless, he needs to figure out a way to turn his game around which he didn’t this year. I personally think he was worse this year than the previous. Basically all his points came in one month. He’s so insconsistent and that is what worries me above all. If we don’t get a new coach in here who hopefully can work with him to figure his game out then I’ll have a hard time watching next year.
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That's the problem though. This team's horrific depth is hurting the good, or potentially good, players we do have. Like Tree mentioned in his end of year presser, they need to do a better job supporting their young players.
As much as I'm for getting rid of Gully (and I am), Tree has an equally huge job in fixing his forward depth this summer.
Gaudreau - Monahan - ???
Tkachuk - Backlund - ???
Bennett - Jankowski - ???
??? - ??? - Lazar
That's how I view our depth chart right now. That's a lot of question marks, and the only players we currently have I'd even want to cross off those question marks with are Spencer Foo for one of the RW spots, possibly Nick Shore at the 4th line centre spot, and Dillon Dube for the 4th line LW if he can outright win a job in camp.