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Originally Posted by Bingo
When your team is having a disappointing year it may be best to focus on the best players not getting it done, and not the fourth line.
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Honestly IMO it's a bit of both.
If you focus on only the top players playing bad that is how you move good players and sell low. When really what they needed was more help.
I don't think Lindholm, Toffoli, Kadri, Backlund, Andersson, Weegar, Hanifin, Tanev etc are to blame for the issues this year.
Could they be better - sure.
Are they the problem - nope.
If you have to pinpoint a problem to me it's 4 things:
Markstrom
Huberdeau
Lucic (even though it's expected he's bad. it's his cap hit is what prevents the team from having another top 9 forward).
Sutter (lack of adjustments and to me he wears the bad PP)
But it also doesn't mean that the 4th line is free of blame. That's generally the easiest area to make improvements that could trickle to the rest of the lineup and help the overall performance.