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Ok so "big part of the team last year" means only the playoffs and not the whole season... Got it.Lol Cmon man , pitlick ? Spezza ? Fedun who they healthy scratched in playoffs ?
Something about small sample sizes and big part of 13games where he scored 2p (both goals) but ok lets assess All "13 games" the team played last year.
among Forwards that were healthy for the PO (Pitlick and Janmark missed time because of injuries)
Cogs finished 9th in ice-time/g ahead of Spezza and Dowling (also ahead of janmark but only 7gp for him)
9th in even strength time/g among forwards again ahead of only Spezza and Dowling.
He was 4th among forward in Shorthanded ice time/g (forwards only) (behind Comeau, Dickinson, Janmark and for some inexplicable reason ahead if Faksa by 20 secs)
He scored 2p (both goals) the same as Dowling and less (in both goals and points) than Spezza.
Literally the only players that weren't injured that he was ahead of in the lineup for ice-time (at forward) were Dowling and Spezza. He didn't outproduce either of them (scored significantly less than Spezza) and was just as big a liability when handling the puck.
But he was ok at icing it on the PK.
His numbers were for everything
Takeaways, Giveaways, Blocked shots, hits, faceoffs, whatever you want to compare On par with, slightly worse(-1,-2), or slightly better(+1,+2) than Dowling and Spezza depending on what you value more. You could maybe make a case that he was better for some of (maybe even most of )those 13games than either Spezza or Dowling (it's a stretch) but if you think being maybe slightly (ever so slightly ) being better for 13games, versus being worse for the vast majority of of 45 games he played in total amounts to him being "a big part of the team"
You need better standards.
All 3 of them shouldn't be on an NHL roster.
Spezza produced the 5th most points (at forward) on the team last year. Sad as that is.
He had a much bigger impact than anything Cogliano did in any cherry picked stretch in a Stars jersey last year.
And as bad as Dowling is, he was never the liability with the puck in the PO that Cogliano was
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