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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Well , they may have tried harder to put him in every opportunity to succeed and not punishing him to the 4th line everytime he made a mistake. Might of helped him develop more.
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This is a huge overstatement. They put him, to a large extent, with another supposedly top prospect they had high hopes for, and a veteran goalscorer who'd never failed to score 20 in a season.
His issue was also that he is a C/LW. Playing on a team with Backlund and Monahan down the middle (and Lindholm also a better C) and Gaudreau and Tkachuk on the left side.