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Originally Posted by Rando
Valimaki was never returning to the WHL. There was zero chance of that happening. The nine game thing is irrelevant and doesn't apply anyway. He played twenty AHL games after returning from a lengthy injury.
That's a whole lot of errors in a short paragraph.
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IF he was over-whelmed by the NHL game in his 9 games there was the option of him returning to the WHL. He wasn't overwhelmed but he wasn't playing at a Heiskanen level either.
How long does it take NHL level players to get their conditioning after an injury and when they are cleared to play? 2 or 3 games max? If he was healthy enough to play in the AHL then he was healthy enough to play in the NHL...
If there was coaching consensus that he would be an upgrade on Fantenberg / Prout pretty obvious he would or at least should have been on the NHL roster getting ready for the playoffs.