Ya, more Neal on the PP is what we need and not him standing in front of the net either. He needs to be in a shooting position, on his off side so he can one time pucks at the net for Chucky to deflect in. I am fine with him playing on the 3rd line but he needs more PP time. He can stay on the 3rd line until he starts playing a bit harder, turn it up a notch, he does look slow at times so playing him with Monahan and JG doesn't seem smart at the moment with how that line has played. Maybe if the struggle, then shuffle some lines.
Maybe something like this?
Tkachuk - Monahan - Bennett
Gaudreau - Lindholm - Neal
Dube - Backlund - Frolik
Hathaway - Ryan - Czarnik
I think the top line would be pretty fun to watch because they would be hard to play against and the second line could be a very skilled line, that is also responsible defensively.
Backlund and Frolik could still be that shutdown line we need, I think Dube could learn a lot from those two, kind of like Tkuckuk before him.
Splitting up JG and SM likely won't happen, but if it does, I would like to see something like this.
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