With the Johnny-Mony-Ritchie line essentially MIA, how are we feeling about the Tkachuk-Lindholm-Dube line?
Although it's become our de-facto top line, but I'm not sure it's a great top-line for a playoff team. There might be better options that involve breaking up Lindholm and Tkachuk. That line seems to provide some sustained offensive pressure at times, but I don't feel like they are a dangerous scoring threat in recent games.
The Lucic-Backlund-Mangiapane line is seems quite effective at cycling the puck leading to a scoring chance as was last year's Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane line. In fact, I'd propose that last year's Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane line is a much more deadly top-line than Tkachuk-Lindholm-Dube, although they were playing as a second line last year.
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