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Originally Posted by mdubz
Wow, that RW position looks brutal on paper.
Leivo, Dube, Simon, Nordstrom.
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It's done by design though to have better balance on all 4 lines. You could move Lindholm and Mangiapane to RW in the top 6 and our RW would look better but then the team isn't as balanced IMO.
The Flames have set up 4 "pairs" of forwards that just happen to be LW-C pairs:
Tkachuk-Lindholm
Gaudreau-Monahan
Mangiapane-Backlund
Lucic - Bennett
Then the idea is that the RW position will rotate through the lines leveraging Dube, Leivo, Simon, Ryan, and Nordstrom.
Honestly it's an interesting approach and I think we will see a lot of different permutations of moving the RWs around the lineup based on how things are going.