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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Fair enough. But you’re going to have the Monahan or Bennett line up against the other teams’ scoring line(s) a lot.
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For sure. There's certainly the argument that Monahan/Bennett aren't good enough offensively to hold up their end of a Monahan/Bennett/Backlund deployment. I mean it's hard to look at those three centers and compare them favourably as a 1-2-3 compared to 99/11/McTavish or 87/71/Staal or even 25/39/Otto.... but I still contend we would have been better with that deployment than we were with Monahan/Backlund/Jankowski (I actually don't remember who the 3C was, but you get the point).
Ps. I love Backs. I folowed him when he played in Kamloops (wait, Kelowna? I get them mixed up. Actually now I'm thinking Saskatoon becuase I seem to remember the Blades for some reason...). I was telling everyone that would listen how excited I was about him playing for the Flames. It's just that unfortunately, the Flames have been the dictionary definition of playing guys out of their depth for the last... I don't know... 30 years? I believe 100% Backlund would have been an irreplacable Cup-winning 3rd line C on better-run team somewhere else.