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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
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. A unit that finished 18th in the league (among the worst of all playoff teams).
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The Flames top unit was #18 in the NHL? Where does one find this information?
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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.
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That's a tough sell when every single member of the top unit had a career year in powerplay production. All five of them were in the top-50 in powerplay points—how does that happen when the top unit is not among the top-ten powerplay units?