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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I guess I'm not very good at conveying my point. I'm not saying Sharangovich is going to be Milano. I'm saying that we're trying to zoom in on a stat to show that our 40pt player will be just as good as the 70pt player we just lost. If only we gave him PP time and more ice time he'd be just as good as Toffoli offensively, or not much of a downgrade. That's the narrative.
I'm just saying that if we chose to zoom in on those stats 5 on 5 Sharangovich can just as easily be compared to Milano. A player that didn't show much of anything while he was here. A similar narrative was spun when we got a player like Leivo or Czarnik. Anyways an increased role and a change of scenery won't necessarily lead to increased production and expecting it is setting the fan base for disappointment.
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Toffoli is not a 70 point player year in and year out. But the fact is he got way more PP time and attention here than anywhere else and it boosted his numbers. It may or may not for this kid but who’s to say it won’t? An increased role did wonders for Lindholm. It did wonders for Bennett in Fla. Look at what happened when Chandler Stephenson had to assume a bigger role in Vegas.