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Originally Posted by Five-hole
And how many times did good passes from Sven on the forecheck get lost by Brandon Stone-Hands Bollig or Devin No-Points Setoguchi?
Few guys can create offense all by themselves. I can recall numerous good feeds and good chances off the cycle created by Sven go to waste on his plugger linemates who bobble passes or don't know where to go to get in scoring position.
I'm not saying he deserves it, maybe he does maybe he doesn't, but if you put Sven with decent linemates he puts up points. Same thing in the AHL. Most of last year he wasn't playing top line. Since his most recent demotion, he is, and is almost PPG in his last 15.
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Not many times. He didn't get his stick on the puck enough in the offensive zone. You are simply imagining things if you think Sven had a lot going in a cycle. He would go in, try to get the puck, but be on the wrong side of the defenceman, and the play would go the other way. I won't argue about Bollig, but IMO Setoguchi looked better than Sven, and had better jump to his play, when they played at the same time.
He also played with Bouma, Jooris and Byron a fair bit. Those guys don't have zero offensive talent.