Feels like Lindholm and Tkachuk are slowly overtaking Gaudreau and Monahan as the impact forwards on this team.
The true mark of a good player is their ability to produce in difficult circumstances and score big goals at important times, and particularly the ability to do so at even strength. Elias and Matthew have been that in just about every game we've won this season.
Those goals have been few and far between for Johnny and Sean for a while now.
I know Gaudreau will rebound at some point to being productive, probably once we get on a roll (and Sean's scoring with that). But we will still know exactly which forwards shined when the games were most difficult.
Hopefully all this serves as even more motivation for those guys to take their games to another level, once they resurface from the land of the snakebitten.
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