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Originally Posted by kyuss275
With Kadri showing he could be the #2 center, and bozak having more chemistry with Kessel, Grabovski would have been a $5+ million center on the 3rd line.
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Kessel produces more when he is APART from Bozak. More goals, more shots, more offensive zone time, better team differential in goals, better team differential in shots, etc. Bozak drags down virtually all of Kessel's numbers.
The only exception is assists, but a) it's not Bozak scoring those goals that Kessel is assisting on because Bozak has never broken 18 goals in a season, and b) it doesn't matter anyways because the team still scores fewer goals per shift when Bozak is centering Kessel than they do when anybody else is centering him.
On the contrary, Kessel's numbers all improve when is on the ice with Grabovski. He does better by every measure. This also isn't limited to Kessel. Most of the other productive wingers on the Leafs also produce more with Grabovski than with Kessel.
Of course the clincher is that when they're not playing with Kessel, Bozak sucks, and his production drops by 50%, whereas Grabovski can put up 20+ goals on his own merits. Of couse Bozak has never hit 20 goals in his career, even when playing with Kessel and being force-fed 1st line minutes.
Here's some graphs and stuff from a website that publishes a new article almost every week demonstrating that Grabovski produces more, and drives more offence, than Bozak:
http://theleafsnation.com/2013/5/17/...game-as-a-leaf
http://theleafsnation.com/2013/6/20/...-bozak-edition