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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Okay, then the bigger issue is that he thinks that Brad "out-of-the-league-for-three-years" Richards and Backlund are comparably players today. Forget the Toews and Monahan discussion.
Or use some common sense and read his post. He was 100% talking about how today's Flames match up with the 2015 Blackhawks because that's what GioforPM was arguing. He's said as much. So don't talk about Gretzky to mock his post.
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Yep. Thanks. We also aren't taking into account the 3rd and 4th line Centers. Ryan looks lost out there and Janko has taken a step back.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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What's wrong with Monahan defensively? He's not Backlund, but hes not Kuznetsov. That's a huge overstatement imo.
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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
However people are ignoring too the additions of Lindholm and Ryan to offset the strain of weak side draws for the main centers.
Lindy has already taken 201 draws in 15 games (13.4 per game average) that’s a lot of draws he is taking off of the weak side of Monahan literally half of the draws Monahan would otherwise have to take and this cannot be taken with a grain of salt; that’s a big impact.
Lindholm
FOT 201 | FOW 113 | FOL 88 | % 56.2
Monahan
FOT 196 | FOW 101 | FOL 95 | % 51.5
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Your right. I don't think you can break up that line and put Lindholm as the second line C. It's been too dominant.
Duchene isn't my first choice, but the most realistic and cheapest to acquire. It would be amazing to get O'Reilly or Schenn from the struggling Blues, or even better Kopitar from the Kings, but we would be have to give up Bennett and either Vali or Andersson along with the 1st. It would hurt. I'd still do it, because this city needs a cup. Badly.
Also, if the flames win a cup with Monahan,Backlund,Jankowski and Ryan as the centers I will eat my butt hair.
