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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Neal hasn't actually been bad. He's just not a line driver and he's being asked to do so with 3rd line talent. I have said it many times as long as he stays on that line it's going to be status quo as he's being misused. Not sure why you would sign a 30+ year old goal scorer to a big money deal only to saddle him with struggling 3rd line talent. Makes very little sense.
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I just don't get this argument.
Do you leave him on the top line when Lindholm has more chemistry? Or do you leave him with Backlund and Tkachuk when they just get pounded as a trio?
14 different combinations this season of 5 or more minutes including his first and third most frequent combinations being the two pairs I mentioned above.
They're trying. They just haven't found the match yet. If he wasn't being tested through out the lineup you'd have a misused argument, but they've tried.