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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
You're confusing what someone is with what role they play on a team. Stajan is not a true 4C any more than Evgeny Malkin is a true 2C. Stajan's a 3C. Nothing about his game has ever limited him from being a regular top 9 forward. He has had success on every line and nothing about his game has fallen so far off the map that he suddenly can't do those things anymore. He looked good as our 2LW two years ago with Backlund and Frolik. He has always been solid as our 3C. The reason he plays 4C and not 3C is because we have been trying to develop young centers like Granlund and Bennett, not because he can't play 3C successfully.
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No I'm not.
Stajan is no longer quite the same player he used to be. He was really good in 2014-15. The next year, notwithstanding the fact that he had to drag around Bollig & Bouma again, he looked done for most of the 2015-16 season. He had a much better year this past year no question (especially given how terrible he looked the previous year), but he really is not the same decent player that he was in previous years.
Hopefully he still has about as much left as he did last year. Time will tell.