Here's what you do. You keep a guy like Andreas Athanasiou (First time I spelled it right without copying and pasting. Thank you). You keep him because he proved himself to be the type of player who can break a game open.
You keep that guy and then you sit him in Game 1 against Tampa.
You play him against Florida and you watch as he gets 14 minutes of ice time and one shot on goal. Good minutes. We applaud that. Shitty production. That makes us sad.
But, he's young. You keep throwing him out there, right? You keep putting him in a position to succeed because you've seen that he can do it and you figure that with confidence he'll blossom even more. It's why you kept him up right?
Wrong. For Game three you put him on the fourth line.
It's the Red Wing way.
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