Fair. It’s fascinating, in a sort of bad way, that sometimes a lack of progress causes a player to go backwards. I mean, a good 4th liner who can play an occasional game as a 3rd liner is still a valuable player. But he’s not even a good 4th liner anymore.
We look a lot at individual talent and the truth is that a lot of success can also come down to timing - being in the right place at the right time, with the right coach, in the right role, in the right system.
Like a lot of situations, be it a job or a relationship or whatever, once you fall behind it can be very difficult to get back into a groove.
In Lindberg’s case, he’s reaching an age where there are younger talents, players with more intriguing upsides or guys who simply have a much better grasp on who they are as NHL players.
IMO, Lindberg is a guy who is trying to play like what worked in the AHL is going to work in the NHL.
