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Originally Posted by Erick
He's averaged 10-15 goals playing 3rd line minutes.
4th liners don't get to play as many minutes as 3rd liners, so they have less of a chance to produce points-wise, etc.
If you gave Olesz consistent 4th line minutes, his #'s would be even worse.
Bottom line is, there's really no reason to defend his play, or say "you only hate him because of his salary" or whatever. He's a very replaceable player, with or without his bad contract.
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Olesz was out-produced (as in scoring rate, a pretty minutes-neutral stat) by nine forwards and one defenseman over the course of last season.