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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I think the entire 3rd line played well, as frolik was also flying around, making hits, generally causing trouble for the kings. Unfortunately although I like Derek Ryan the person (works hard, seems like a good team player) I felt like he was noticeably being dragged along by the other two. If we could get this team another top 6 c and have backlund to center an elite 3rd with Bennett and frolik we'd be at 1989 levels of depth.
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That’s not happening. Even if goaltending was solid and resources weren’t possibly needed to replace Smith getting someone actually good enough to be a better 2C than Backlund would cost a lot of prospects/players and would likely prevent signing Tkachuk. The best hope is likely for Jankowski to work out, but he’s nowhere near being able to outperform Backlund at this point.