I feel like Lindholm should be played at centre, but man does it ever get tempting to put him on the wing.
Personally I would do this with the forwards:
Gaudreau - Monahan - Neal
Tkachuk - Backlund - Lindholm
Bennet - Ryan - Frolik
Klimchuk/Czarnik/Mangiapane/Foo - Jankowski - Brouwer
I personally think that Backlund has shown that he can be one of the best second line centres in the league. It might be worthwhile to give him a better right winger and see what he can do.
If I'm going to put Lindholm at centre, I would look at splitting up Monahan and Gaudreau. Something like this looks good to me.
Bennett - Monahan - Tkachuk
Gaudreau - Backlund - Neal
Brouwer - Lindholm - Frolik
Jankowski - Ryan - Klimchuk/Czarnik/Mangiapane/Foo
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