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Originally Posted by Diane Phagoof
And only 2 of them are good.
Jankowski has not looked good.
Ryan has not looked good.
The only person on the second line that's producing is Tkachuk, that needs to change.
I think Backlund is/does his best work on the thirdline as an elite shutdown guy who chips in 20/20.
Something like Stone, Czarnik, 1st for Duchene
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Duchene-Neal
Bennett-Backlund-Frolik
Dube-Jankowski-Ryan
Giordano-Brodie
Hanifin-Hamonic
Valimaki-Andersson
Rittich
Smith
That's a scary team.
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Goal is kinda scary all right.
You are underselling Backlund's offence a bit. And even if he is restricted to "elite shutdown man", no other centre is going to get the ice time to put up a lot of points. Monahan gets top line minutes, Backlund is out against the top lines of other teams. That's not a lot of time for another C to put up points.