That Fabbs doesn’t exist anymore. I don’t love pool party but he has untapped potential and nobody is giving you sure thing for Fabbs. This time next year Fabbri will have zero value if he doesn’t make significant progress.
How do you know that?
Just a handful of weeks ago half this forum was convinced that Tarasenko would never be the same based on a shoulder surgery and half a year of decidedly substandard play even though he was "healthy." Does anyone think that's the case now?
Bouwmeester looked like absolute ass for the first couple of months of the season, even though he was finally healthy after a long stretch of time when he wasn't. Now he looks a lot better...probably even better than he did immediately before his last two injuries.
Missing as much time as Fabbri did is not something you usually just come back from without missing a beat, even if you're completely healthy. It takes time to fully find your game when you've been sidelined for that long, and that's on top of the time it takes to fully trust your body again since the former is dependent on the latter. I know that from firsthand experience, not that there isn't ample evidence to point at in the world of sports.
Fabbri's knee doesn't look like an active physical hindrance to me when I watch him play, so it's very possible that the rest of his game rounds into shape with time. He might not ever get to the point where he was before, but then again he might eventually surpass that and be even better. Nobody knows.
Either way, I rather strongly doubt that what he is right now (20-ish games after coming back) is as good as he'll ever be assuming the knee holds from here (and believing it won't is much more personal pessimism than an opinion based on medical facts).