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Originally Posted by NegativeSpace
I still go with the theory that his biggest error was thinking he had a first line centre in Monahan or over time Bennett. He bet that this team was done rebuilding and sought to get support. Now, I thought the same as he did at the time. He made errors on Neal and Brower but those are secondary to thinking this team had the right top players before buying high on some defence and secondary scoring.
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Well, he definitely thought Bennett would be #1, and so he got Neal to build wings. IMO he got Lindholm as a 1B when it wasn’t working with Bennett, but the combo of Neal being terrible and Lindholm fitting in with JG and SM kept Lindy out of the middle for too long.