singling out any one individual in a team sports usually a fallacy and a half i don't like to do it

but i'm okay with labeling one particular player as pivotal to this coming season.

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Ricard Raquel is that guy.

In an election year, you could call him a swing vote.

He's the one who could make it all make sense,

or he's the one who could throw it all out of whack.

And I got a couple of different contexts for that that I'll share with you.

The first is the one that I think would be the most obvious, and that's his role on the second

line.

I think we can all agree that Yvgeny Malkin and Michael Bunting, for whatever reason, seem to

really hit it off on the ice.

Last season after Bunting came over in the Jake

Gensel trade, that's not something you're going to mess with. And as Mike Sullivan himself is

fond of pointing out, he, unlike most of the rest of us, thinks of his lines as pairings versus three-man lines. In other words,

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