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Originally Posted by Diane Phagoof
I honestly think the flames need a center more than a Goalie. I like Rittich, I think he and Smith can share the net and go with whoever catches fire.
I'll say it again, the flames are not going anywhere with:
Monahan
Backlund
Jankowski
Not to say there is anything wrong with these players, I like them all, but lets do a little rearranging.
Monahan
Duchene
Backlund
...There we go. That's a group up the middle I see going places. Not saying it has to be Duchene but we need a more offensively minded center to play with Tkachuk.
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Monahan and Duchene on the same team would be a disaster. Neither is above average defensively so you would have about 38 ES minutes every game where your top six is essentially getting their face kicked in. We've seen that story, too, it was called the 2016-17 Colorado Avalanche. MacKinnon-Duchene-Soderberg, they thought they were deep down the middle, too.
You can have one defensively suspect center (Carter, Monahan, Kuznetsov), but not two.