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Ogre, it's a little more complicated than that, though. Kunitz was seen not as a guy who could produce 60 in his own right at the time. He was seen largely as a product of the Ducks' offense, riding on the success of better players (hell, go back in time here and read the threads in the archives after the trades-- plenty of Ducks fans were saying we got fleeced on Kunitz, and not because they were in love with Whitney and Tangradi). He was an undrafted journeyman, shuffling around the league being waived and claimed by various teams, who fit a niche relatively late in his career. Kunitz succeeding as well as he has here was again, because, while he does nothing spectacularly, he was able to slot into a niche in the top 6.
I'm not saying Spaling's identical, nor am I saying that he WILL do so, but that it's not entirely out of the range of possibility to wonder if his abilities would be a good fit in our top 6. That's what I'm getting at, not that he's the next Kunitz 2.0 or whatever.
On a tangential note, it's amazing how much the game has tightened up again in 8 years.
I'm not saying Spaling's identical, nor am I saying that he WILL do so, but that it's not entirely out of the range of possibility to wonder if his abilities would be a good fit in our top 6. That's what I'm getting at, not that he's the next Kunitz 2.0 or whatever.
On a tangential note, it's amazing how much the game has tightened up again in 8 years.