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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I personally think that Mangi will be offensively neutered in this position but lets see how it goes!
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I tend to agree. I've become frustrated with Backlund. He seems to be killing any offense on his line. It's really frustrating, because at times you see how gifted he can be offensively, but then it just dissappears for weeks at a time.
I'm also growing tired of Tkachuk being non-existent on the top line 5 on 5. Just doesn't seem to get much done.
I know it's the in thing to hate Monahan these days, but I wonder if Sutter might ever try this:
Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm
Tkachuk - Backlund - Mangiapane
Coleman - Dube - Pitlick
Lucic - Richardson - Lewis
Tkachuk and Backlund were really good together in the past. It gets Dube back to Center with defensively aware Coleman. And I've always liked 13-23-28; maybe they can rekindle 2018.