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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
This is something I really don't get at all. He comes back from a significant injury and is essentially given no opportunity to produce or play in the top 6. The guy isn't going to get comfortable out there again unless he's playing regularly.
This would be fine but when you consider the fact that guys like Jones and Byron are pretty much left to play night in and night out while doing nothing it really makes you wonder.
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He does not appear to be a Hartley player. He seemed to just be finding his game with Flames systems when he got hurt. He said his injuries are not to blame, but you can tell they have really affected his play, even the injury he had coming out of training camp slowed his start to the season. He has not had a lot of swagger since coming to Calgary. The other scratches to get guys going were one game, not multiple. Dressing Raymond for warm up and then scratching him in Vancouver was quite a slap in the face when you take into account how much crap he got from that fan base and Vancouver media. At least when Bolig got scratched against Chicago he knew ahead of time.
Raymond had good underlying numbers in Vancouver on the pk and finished in top five percent in stats last half of the season in Toronto, yet has no time in Calgary. Maybe a few shifts would help get his confidence back.