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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.
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It is decent, especially when you consider that two of the folk above him are currently injured.
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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.
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Who do you think he's been playing with since his icetime got elevated?
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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.
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Wait... so you think the default should be him playing ahead of other? Seems strange
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He played well and got minutes
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He played ok and got minutes. I didn't see anything from him that in my mind forced the coach to elevate his minutes.
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he play poorly and didn't seems to me that he did warrant those minutes, at least more than anyone else on the team.
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I really don't know what this means.
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He has outplayed Backlund,
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Really really really disagree. IMO Backlund has been easily the superior player all season long.
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Who exactly should be playing in the 8 minutes that he played last game?
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It's not about just the last game. It's about the body of work as a whole and particularly the body of work since he got his ice-time initially elevated.