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Originally Posted by Monahammer
The person who kicked this off disagrees with you, stating that VGK proved contenders dont need a world beating 1C. i agree, and further i think our centre depth is actually superior to vgk.
we cant acquire a better centre than monahan through trade, and Lindholm has done nothing at all to prove that he could be better in the role. trading monahan immediately makes the team worse. its a dumb idead.
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I’m not sure who kicked this off, and I guess it’s fair to use the VGK as an example to prove that you don’t need a world beating #1C to win. But I would counter-argue that all the recent champions have had better #1Cs than Monahan: Crosby, Toews, Bergeron, Kopitar, Backstrom, O’Reilly and Point. These centres are not all better natural goal scorers than Monahan. Monahan is an elite goal scorer. But I would argue all those centres are better all around players.
I’m not advocating a Monahan trade. I’m arguing the team should move Monahan to the wing and Lindholm to centre. My blue sky lines would be:
Gaudreau - Backlund - Tkachuk
Mangiapane - Lindholm - Monahan (Monahan on RW for one-timers)
Simon - Bennett - Dube
Lucic - Ryan - Nordstrom/Gawdin
I believe this gives all lines at least two fast skaters and at least two players that will go into the corners to dig pucks out or stand in front of the net.