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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Gaudreau-Monahan-Mangiapane
Tkachuk-Backlund-Lindholm
Is this what you're proposing? I would like to see it, but I think many posters here will assume that the first line would get caved in physically.
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When I look at those lines, I see Tkachuk-Backlund-Lindholm as the first line, and Gaudreau-Monahan-Mangiapane as a pretty damn stellar #2. If Tkachuk continues to improve, Backlund stays on last year's form, and Lindholm bounces back from the awful things he had to deal with off-ice, that might be a decent way to go. But then, I've been saying privately for some time that the way to fix the Flames' forward group is not to split up or replace 13 and 23, but to build a new #1 line and push them down the roster.
13-23-88 might be easy to push around and pretty weak defensively, but as a second line with sheltered usage they could be very productive.