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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Teams focus on MacKinnon, Macdvid, Kucherov and so on as well. Our top guys never produced and IMO I never thought Johnny was going to get it done in the playoffs. Tkachuk was bad for us in the playoffs too, but in Florida he has been great.
You can make a case Backlund has been our best player in the playoffs. If we had true elite players and guys like him behind them, we would have been a cup contender.
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In theory having Johnny and Monahan and Bennett and Tkachuk as lines seems like it should work but even if Tkachuk and Bennett did what they did in Florida not so sure Johnny and Monahan would have been elite in the playoffs. Johnny seemed easier to shut down. Johnny definitely wasn't the guy to build around.