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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
I am. You're also making the assumption that Eichel is going to recover from his surgery and be the same player, and that Eichel is going to come over from Buffalo and have a greater impact than what he has in Buffalo.
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This was a bubble team with a broken Sean Monahan playing those minutes. Heck, it's largely the same core that won the western conference two years ago, sans a revamped defense core but plus a goalie in his prime.
If Jack Eichel can do anything close to his thing from Buffalo, probably on a scoring line with Johnny Hockey, and Elias Lindholm can do his thing, probably on a two-way line with Eatbread, and Mikael Backlund can do his thing, probably on a matchup line with Blake Coleman, and Matthew Tkachuk can do his thing on any of the three aformentioned lines, this is a deep, balanced team. Eichel doesn't need to play 22 minutes a night here as he did in Buffalo, either. He'll probably see similar usage to Gaudreau, who under Sutter was around 18-19 a night.