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xGF%
Gaudreau – Lindholm – Tkachuk 62.6%
Mangiapane – Backlund – Coleman 64.5%
Lucic – Monahan – Toffoli 37.5%
Dube – Lewis – Ritchie NA
Hanifin – Andersson 58.5%
Kylington – Tanev 58.5%
Zadorov – Gudbranson 59.1%
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Our top two lines carried the team. We need to figure out a way to weaponize our 3rd line, because even though we won - we showed that when playing on the road the opposition can target our bottom-6 and stay in games (and likely win games in a series). You can have a 4th line that gets targeted, but when both of your bottom 6 lines get targeted and dominated you are going to lose some important games.
That should be Treliving's goal leading into the deadline. He has to add to the bottom 6. It shouldn't be too hard to do either as there will be plenty of players available who can provide strong bottom 6 minutes (or go overkill and get Hertl...). In the mean time, I hope we see Dube - Monahan - Toffoli reunited.
As good as Lindholm has been this year (and in recent years), last night is when it really landed for me. He is a top end centre in this league.