Disagree, that's the type of thinking that plagues development and growth of players... Mac is a passenger to Grabovski, when Grabo go's so does Mac on the score sheet cause he's lethal from the hash marks in as a trigger guy but the rest of his game is what had him on the 4th line last year and Frattin in his role. Give it some time it wont be too long where Carlyle will land him on the bench for his play in his own end of not doing the simple task of supporting the D in getting the puck out on the wall past the blue line... Age is just a number my dear friend look at experience when you want to break it down what Frattin is in need of and the confidence you gain when your an NHL regular what it does for your game.
Everybody including the greatest hockey player of all time go's through ups and downs this standard that young guys have to be going at all times over the vet to make your club is how you ruin prospects. As much as people don't get it when it comes to youth it's about projection and do they show the signs of meeting them that Frattin has more than anything else to get them in the NHL when your a bottom feeding team like the Leafs... development as an NHL player doesn't occur in the AHL it happens AT THE NHL LEVEL that's why you remove the MacArthur's Lombardi's, Connoly's from your team if your going to grow your own. That's how you grow young players that are projected as part of your future you remove the vets that are nothing but road blocks and commit to the young guy to develop into what is projected of them.
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