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Originally Posted by CsInMyBlood
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.
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4 shifts is more than he usually got on the third. That's my point. He was played until they needed to tighten up defensively.
10 minutes of ice time is a 6th of the game. It's just around half of a first line guy, and about 75% of a second line guy. Sven was not earning more ice time.
I can easily imagine what would have happened with more ice time because I saw what happened with what he got. Multiply that result by the additional minutes. I also saw what Jooris and Gaudreau and Granlund did with the same amount of time to start with.
Sven was put in a position to sink or swim and he sank. You can blame the coaches and management all you want, but a player's success is usually based on the player.