I'm hoping that Saturday night's win against the Oilers will give Ward some options for combos that have shown a small sample size of success together.
Gotta give him credit for finding ways to make Lucic and Bennett play better (or at least not look terrible), even if it's only for one game. Hopefully they can build on that.
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Dube
Gaudreau-Monahan-Bennett
Lucic-Backlund-Mangiapane
And if a game is going badly, we can revert, in-game, to some tried and tested combos to screw with opposition's deployment plans.
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane
Lucic-Bennett-Dube
I think it's better than the line blender because I don't want to see Nordstrom on the top line.
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