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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
This is a team that is probably going to spend a lot of time in the penalty box based on the makeup of the team. Special teams are going to have top notch, or this team is going to be easy pickings. If they make the post-season, and that is a massive "if", they will be tough to play against. The problem is they may not be good enough to make the post-season. They have what looks to be a good first line, a massive question mark on the second line, and then a bunch of guys you hope don't have the other team beat up on the scoreboard on the bottom six.
After looking at this mess, Treliving should be relieved of his duties.
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I'll play ball. You're throwing out a lot of bologna with no substance.
Line 1: Tkachuk-Lindholm-Johnny I agree, appears to be a very solid 1 line.
Line 2: Mangiapane-Monahan-Coleman This is where you lose me. You could argue Monahan is a question mark but statistically you're talking about a guy who is essentially guaranteed to put up 20g and 50 pt. Mangiapane has a lot of fans around here who would say he's much more than a ? and Coleman also has a good record of consistency. So the injury to Monahan should be the only real ?
Line 3: Lucic-Backlund-Dube I know you're not a lucic fan, but then you could replace him with Pitlick and easily invalidate your argument. This has the makings statistically of a good third line.
Line 4: Lewis-Richardson-Pitlick Again, statistically this is a group of guys that's never really been beaten up on the scoreboard through their career. Could happen but I don't think you're going in desperately hoping to not get clowned (as opposed to running a line of Simon-Ryan-Nordstrom as a comparison)