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With Bennett, I think the biggest need is to just play him with someone else who is tenacious on the forecheck and can play with pace.

Dube delivers that, as does Mangiapane. I'd like to see Bennett at centre, and I think ultimately that is where we'll see him - but Mang-Backs-Benny as an alternate line should be a pretty good line.

Mangiapane - Backlund - Bennett
Mangiapane - Bennett - Dube
Lucic - Bennett - Dube

All look like good options to me, but I would love to see:

Tkachuk - Bennett - Lindholm

Then fill out the rest of the roster with:

Mangiapane - Backlund - Leivo
Gaudreau - Monahan - Dube
Lucic - Ryan - Simon

A really good bonus to the team while icing Lucic - Bennett - Dube was that it also pulled the best hockey we'd seen out of Dube and Lucic (as well as Bennett), that shouldn't be ignored.