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Originally Posted by GioforPM
My theory is he was to be the 2C and Backlund was going to move down a level. And the reason he was going to be 2C was they’d lost faith that Bennett would be a 1C, as they planned when they drafted him. I think the initial plan was likely Bennett - Monahan - Backlund - whoever. Then Monahan - Lindholm - Backlund - whoever (with Bennett on a wing). But Neal’s failure and Lindholm’s success on RW changed all that.
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Possibly, but Treliving had just signed Backlund to a brand new $32M contract just a few months prior to that Lindholm trade. I wonder if it was more of play to drop Frolik down to the 3rd line seeing as how poor his 17-18 season went.