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Frycer14 said:Hopefully folks understand my point in the Lehtonen thread now. Success in the KHL translating over is a huge gamble.
The problem is that this was just a disastrous year for him to transition. He was in "game shape" from playing in the KHL to start the year but he never got a chance to adjust to the North American rink because we had next to no training camp. The Leafs have had a heavy schedule with 27 games and 31 off days between them so practice time is limited so he hasn't really had a great opportunity to get practice work in to develop those skills.
He very well could end up being a decent all around NHL player with an offensive focus but this season really just killed that, especially with Bogosian being decent instead of a guy who I think most expected to be a guy playing half the season and being in and out of the lineup a lot.