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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I think your bar is pretty low. He has to be one of the worst players at taking and making a pass on the team.
I agree he is looking better and completing more plays with his linemates but he is definitely not doing it at near a top 9 level imo.
He skating hard banging and crashing and has an active stick but he just isn't a player you put out there if you want your line to keep possession of the puck while it's on his Stick. He's at his best when he is the last player to touch the puck before a whistle rather than the first to touch it following one
Playing without janko and Hathaway has improved his game but not by leaps and bounds, he is now just an adequate bottom 6 player.
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Not sure I established a bar.
I mentioned the types of passes I'm seeing, and then said I think I've seen one every game in the last ten.
He's seeing the ice better this year was my point.
But one of the worst players on the team taking and giving passes? I think you're bar is unfair.
I'd put him ahead of a lot of players in the forward group ... Neal, Frolik, Czarnik, Ryan, heck maybe even Monahan.