[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper

The concern is effectiveness and efficiency. Deep teams have great players who slot lower in the line up but can play higher. Weaker teams deploy lesser quality players higher in the line up which is why I pointed to Mason Raymond as an example.

Raymond played 17 minutes a game with a terrible Leafs team and put up nearly 20 goals and 45 points. He then comes to a better Calgary team on a new contract, struggles to stay in our top 6, forced to play in the bottom 6 and naturally cannot replicate the same production and is then bought out.

He's an extreme case which I don't see happening with Lindholm. But this is an every year occurance in the league where one player goes to a new team or situation and struggles to produce like the year before because they didn't get the same opportunities as previous.

I don't know what Lindholm is and I can't say I've ever paid attention to his game. So he is an unknown quantity to me, but to me, a less riskier player would be one who scores more efficiently at even strength, per minute that he plays with less opportunities on the PP and etc. That would be a player who I would say has a higher likelihood of breaking out.

This is clearly evident.