You absolutely cannot make a case for either one
- Trevor Shackles
GP TOI G A P P P/60 CF CA C+/- CF% PDO
54 738.5 11 16 27 18 2.19 792 616 176 56.25 101.63
54 833.1 16 17 33 29 2.38 905 829 76 52.19 102.59
Seriously? Which one is Stone and which one is Lindholm (the TOI should give you a clue--dogpoop teams tend to ride their best players a little harder
). Are you actually a blogger, or are you just some Ottawa fanboy?
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At 24 Lindholm is 3 years younger than Stone and is locked up at a reasonable 4.85 million for 6 years. From a production standpoint the edge goes to Stone (for now), but Lindholm hasn't even hit his prime yet.
Both players are excellent defensively.
Lindholm is good at faceoffs--which saves some wear & tear on Monahan because we can use him for strong-side faceoffs. I would also argue that Lindholm is the more physical of the two.
So yeah, I do think its a relatively close call.