Originally Posted by Ashasx
You don't know that at all.
As already pointed out, Sven barely got any 3rd period ice time even in his 2 assist game. So the following game, because he doesn't exactly make something happen in his first two shifts, he gets benched for the rest of the game?
Because the game was on the line and Sven isn't a good two-way player. BTW, you were wrong about his ice time the next game. It went up. The game after that, it went back down.
If Granlund and Jooris were treated the same way, they'd be averaging the same minutes per game with similar offensive numbers, too.
Granlund and Jooris are treated the same way. They are used situationally. Jooris has been scratched a few times lately. Granlund is about to be scratched. And, no, their offensive numbers wouldn't be the same because they are around the net, and Sven was a perimeter player, which doesn't lead to points in the big leagues.
Hell, in his third game up, the Flames directed 17 shots towards the net when Baertschi was on the ice, versus only 7 against, and he still only got 50 some seconds of ice in the 3rd period.
I was never asking for Baertschi to replace Gaudreau or Glencross, but during this same time period, there was no reason why Setoguchi was being spoon fed PP time (in many games, he actually led the team in PP TOI).
I already gave three reasons: RW/RHS, net front presence, past production in the NHL. Plus, at that 'same time period", Setoguchi was being scratched, not given more PP time. Then he got two more games and was sent down.
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