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Originally Posted by The Cobra
He's still getting plenty of ice time and 2nd PP time. He has every opportunity to show he deserves increased time.
He's not been the subject matter of benching and demotions.
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Deserves isn’t the issue. How to improve is. And I’m not talking about what’s happened, I’m talking about what’s being proposed by certain posters.
In fact, he has been benched a few times within games. And I consider PP1 to PP2 a demotion since it’s usually about 1:30 vs 0:30 (his unit looked better though). And Backlund’s line is an offensive demotion. Kadri’s line gets the offensive zone starts, Backlund’s gets defensive zone starts and Lindholm’s gets a mix.