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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
So?
"Ideally" Lindholm is your second line center. Is Gaudreau-Lindholm-Tkachuk our second line?
"Ideally" requires having the pieces - AKA Jack Eichel - for everyone to be slotted ideally.
I love that Dube is being given a chance to center Mangiapane. Maybe they could even become a solid scoring line. But they'd have to profoundly outscore Backlund's line to be a de-facto second line, because Backlund's line will likely match them in production while facing tougher matchups.
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Backlund has been the 3rd line center the first two games...he has, he played with Lucic. Sutter started the season with Backlund as the 3rd line center. Top 2 lines have done all the scoring so far. Coleman scored from Gaudreau, Lindholm X2 and Mangi
Maybe that changes IDK
Rule of thumb...if you are playing with Lucic you are in the bottom six