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Originally Posted by ComixZone
18G, 18A for 36 points in 77 games as an NHL rookie.
Michael Frolik put up 15G, and 17A for 32 points in 64 games as a veteran.
If I'm a team, I'm playing Sam Bennett ahead of Michael Frolik. Set up the younger player in a position to succeed.
Instead, this team did what it always does. They took the easier route. They fed Bennett to the Brouwer led wolves, and we are where we are. What did the team accomplish while they had Frolik up in the line-up?
It didn't vanish. It was beat out of him by one of the most incompetent organizations in the league, and a young player who didn't know how to deal with having the confidence absolutely ripped out of him.
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So Frolik had a better year is what you are saying. The Backlund line was a shutdown line. Talk about throwing him to the wolves. And Frolik proceeded to have the best year of his career.
What did they do? Improved on the preceding year by almost 20 points and made the POs. And going into the year everyone thought Brouwer was a quality player. They put Bennett at C like everyone had begged for the previous year, and between two veteran guys who supposedly could score. That’s more responsibility but in a sheltered role.