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Originally Posted by 868904
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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In the first 48 games Mangipane had 8 goals 15 pts and was -1 after the All star break he had 20 games 9 goals 17 pts +5
Post season 10 games 2 goals 5 Pts -2. Became 3rd liner behind Bennett, Lucic and Dube.
If it came up to him and Dube who to protect in the Seattle draft it would be a hard choice but to me it looks like Dube
Really hard to arbitrate 20 games as a solid top-6 with 58 games as 3rd liner.