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Originally Posted by Parallex
And I don't, I don't "blame" him for any game (I don't really blame any one skater for any result, team game and all that) it's just that I don't think he warrants the TOI he get's.
He been granted remarkably easy minutes (Lopsided starts in favor of the offensive zone, decent PP time, virtually no PK time, quality line-mates) and he doesn't do much with it. The only forward who get's remotely similar deployment is Monahan... and Monahan A: is a 18/19 year old first year pro and B: actually does something with it.
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Well the PP time has been addressed and if you think that 7th amongst forwards and an average of 5 seconds more than Backlund is decent I am not sure what to say.
He has played a lot with Jackman and McGrattan early on and isn't playing with world beaters now so not really sure about the linemates comment.
He has benefitted from Stajan being hurt and the other centers, outside of Monahan, not really doing anything to warrant him not playing ahead of them.
He played well and got minutes, he play poorly and didn't seems to me that he did warrant those minutes, at least more than anyone else on the team.
He has outplayed Backlund, not really taken any minutes from Monahan and had his minutes reduced in games that Stajan has played so I am not really sure where the anger/frustration/whatever it is from fans is coming from. Who exactly should be playing in the 8 minutes that he played last game? Who should have gotten the minutes he did in the very short 4 game stretch where he had outplayed Backlund and got rewarded for good play?