Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
I never said he jumped to the top of the team in ice time. The 19 shifts he got that game were close the most all season, and the next game he got 16. His average was 14. His ice time in those two games was higher than average as well. He played more in all 3 periods than usual. If he was a better defender he would have gotten more.
That was more ice time, based on effort, than he'd beeen getting. And then his level of play dropped and so did his ice time.
Did you think Hartley would jump him from 10 to 18 minutes based on one game?
|
You said, "he got a fair bit of time in the 3rd." He had 4 shifts in the 3rd. I don't believe that is a fair bit of time.
Funny, Sven only had 5 games this season where he got more than 10 mins of ice. 10:49, 11:02, 10:12, 10:43, and his last game as a Flame on Feb 2 13:17.
10 mins of ice is nothing, yet all his points (4 assists) came from those games. Imagine what may have happened if he was given just a little more ice time.
He was never put into a position to succeed. He was never put into a position to sink or swim. He was never given the green light to show what he was or wasn't. Makes no sense to me at all.