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Originally Posted by Anduril
Everything stats wise pointed to Bozak being the worse player than Grabovski so I'm really not sure where your confidence comes from.
Mythbusting: Tyler Bozak.
In short, bad at faceoffs despite being the 'best center', Kessel scores more goals, and is atrocious defensively without Kessel for some reason. Honestly one of the more real scenarios when people say 'Oh player x is only doing well because of player y'.
The real reason(s) behind Grabovski's buyout is the coach liked Bozak infinitely more than Grabovski for whatever reason (lolcarlyle) and they wanted to save some money to go after Clarkson. Bozak has had a solid season this year instead of Grabovski on a Ovechkin powered offensive team but I'd chalk that to having another great year from Kessel, JVR having chemistry with Kessel as well as having his own great season.
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Bozak has much better stats. Are you not aware of this?
Bozak in 2013-14':
55 18 29 47 5
Grabovski in 2013-14':
54 12 22 34 5
For "Whatever Reason". LOL. Grabovski is having a worse season than Bozak and Kadri. He is the oldest and by far most expensive of the 3. He was the 3rd line centre last season. Remind me why he is better?
Trust me, if you have Grabovski as a 3rd line centre again making 5.5million everyone is laughing at it. Instead, we have trolls claiming he'd be the best Leafs centre because he's off the team.