I actually like the make up of the team quite lot, so I guess I'm in the minority of most of the PGT posters.
It's an interesting argument, reading that keeping Lindholm at C will be worthwhile even if the team performs worse in the short term due to missing a second top six RW (besides Mangiapane). I disagree, because I don't think Lindholm is showing signs of being a game breaking C.
As a fan, I'd just like to see Gaudreau-Monhan-Lindholm back together because they are talented and fun to watch. Watching Ritchie out there with Gaudreau was an unpleasant reminder of the mess of lines last year when Robinson was put there before the players eventually asked the coaches to revert to the lines that worked.
Tkachuk plays a lot better with Backlund as his C than with Lindholm. Not sure if it's chemistry or what but his game is terrible right now and it makes a lot of sense to put him back with his longtime C.
Demoting Bennett from the Bubble Line was pure idiocy and I'll never understand that.
Happily, I think that Brett Ritchie showed he can actually play tonight. I would love to see Gawdin get a shot and maybe get Leivo back in there.
The D pairs were good before and I hope they go back to them.
Awful game and frankly, a bad series vs the Canucks. However, there is still a lot of promise with this squad and if the coaches will just go back to lines that worked, I'd expect a playoff level team for the rest of the season.
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