F Ivan Demidov - SKA St. Petersburg, KHL (2024, 5th, MTL)

[Vincent01]

Here are some facts for you:

1. He does play over 10 minutes in most games.
2. Not only that, he still averages about 11 minutes per game meaning the games where he plays a lot of minutes outweigh those where he played 3-4 which has been the case sometimes. Sometimes he doesn't play almost at all but in those other games, he plays a legitimate top-6 role.
3. Not only does he play a top-6 role in those games, but he thrives in them, which was the point of my original post that started this. As outlined by the poster you were referring to, Demidov is close to PPG in those games.
4. Just because you find those facts hard to take for you or you go out of your way to misunderstand it somehow doesn't make my "take" (which is really just outlining some facts, I'm hardly making any kind of statement here) wrong and certainly does not make me feel embarrassed in any way.
5. Just because fans of every fan base always want their prospect to be the greatest, play all the minutes, and whenever they don't do so, it's bad, I don't see anything else but load management going on with Demidov. Otherwise, he is in a great environment where he is productive and constantly getting big league experience. Ducks did a similar thing with Leo Carlsson after bringing it over (as in extreme load management) and somehow nobody was up in arms about it.

Just because you and, I assume, many Montreal fans are unhappy with this, doesn't make your "take" about it objective. In that, the poster to whom I wrote my "embarrassing" reply was just factually wrong about it. I thought, if "the truth" was so much on your side, it wouldn't need any exaggeration.

Funny saying others are not being objective while assuming that Demidov plays a top 6 role most of the games.

There wasn't a single game where he was in the top 6 most used forward for SKA all year.