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I wrote this to Little thread:
Went through some stats and one can hardly claim that 2nd C has done offensively good job with 37 pts while there is wingers with 75, 62, 52, 41 and 37. This with fair amount of PP time and solid TOI.
Playing with Ehlers and Laine hasn't just held them back. It has held him back too. He has still been good defensively. He started slowly but has been much better after the first 10-15 games.
I'm not saying I have been thrilled with his play this year. It has been disappointing. Ironically, I think it seems worse because he has been so consistent in the past. This is the first 'off year' of his career.
Your opinion (or any other person's) of Little v Stastny doesn't really matter much, because next year we will have Little and we won't have Stastny - in all likelihood.
If Roslovic doesn't become our hoped for, scoring 2/3C then we are likely to have 2 scoring lines, a shutdown line and a scoring 4th line centred by Copp. I think we just have to hope PMo finds line combinations that work.