Agree with the lines, but that’s Ward.
It’s also BT. He needed another scorer before Backlund has fallen off the cliff.
Now he needs probably two...he has 4 top 6 forwards, and any combination of those 4 players over the two lines has proven not to produce decent results. Stick them all one one line, like last playoffs, you get that line shut down with 1 guy on the second line. 2 on each line doesn’t work, SM and JG avoided bothering to pass Backlund by the end of his tenure up there, and EL and MT didn’t exactly light it up either, again because they didn’t have a reliable third guy, or would Ward keep a third guy there consistently.
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