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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I agree that his usage on the PP was misguided, and that he should have been used more as a trigger man. But you are over-stating his worth because, even when he was used in that way, he was awful. And again, 5th in PP time.
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Well, I don't know that I'm overstating anything.
We agree on usage not being right, regardless of which unit he was on. And if on the #2 PP unit, he's playing with guys like Ryan, Frolik, Bennett, etc, without any true playmakers. So even if he was used right on the #2 unit his ceiling was capped dramatically.
Usage is the crux of the issue, though. Peters tinkers with lines constantly, but we almost never saw that with the #1 PP unit. And this is a team that finished 18th in the league in PP% (among the worst of all playoff teams).
And while there's no way in hell I'll say Neal is better than the other 4 forwards, I'd have liked to see him given opportunities on that unit, used in the
right way to extract the most value from him.