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Mangiapane was playing well on a line with Ryan and Lucic before he was promoted to 3M when Frolik was failing.
Ryan kind of lost his line after that and never found a new one and seems like the odd man out now.
But if they do plan to play cheap youngsters on the 4th line, there’s no better vet than Ryan to put them with.
I’d even consider moving Ryan up with Monahan and Gaudreau and moving Lindholm to centre Tkachuk and have Backlund and Mangiapane form their own line. This would really spread out the scoring and mitigate any weaknesses in the 11th and 12th forwards.
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I meant when he played with Ryan and Hathaway, they also had good success as a line. Over the last two seasons, Mangiapane seemed to make whichever line he was on better.