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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Then you could end up at
13-23-28
19-11-88
17-93-29
Three lines that have worked.
The coach is smarter than that
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At the same time though, that's the exact lineup that's had good regular season results and then fallen flat in the playoffs two years in a row. Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm have a 37% xGF% as a trio in the playoffs. Let's not pretend this is some no-brainer obvious contender lineup that Ward's stubbornly refusing to play. At some point you have to build for the long term even if there's an easy answer to win a bit more right now. Lindholm at C gives us our best shot (IMO) at the kind of play-driving two-way top line that you need in the playoffs.