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I've seen people say that Kadri's numbers with Kessel are better than Bozak's, even if he still does need to develop more, but I think the main point people are concerned about is that MLSE doesn't see Bozak as the best they've got at the moment, but a perfectly good option. So Kadri might not get his shot later and the Leafs might forgo trades or make bad once because the team is so devoted to not admitting that they could do better than Bozak. It's the same issue with having him around because he's Kessel's friend: it's not that it's so awful that he's on the team, it's just that him being there as 1C says particularly bad things about MLSE's priorities because he's not very good at it and you do need a 1C, whereas at least the punchers they think they need a million of aren't expected to do the scoring. Everyone would be totally prepared to keep Bozak to make Kessel happy if MLSE would also add some other people, which it doesn't actually seem like Phil would raise a fuss about.

Well, Mikko is a LOT better than Bozak, so. ;) (Not that I don't think you know that, but the numbers say Mikko's very, very good still, and that Bozak has been lucky recently. So it's sort of the opposite problem in terms of misinterpreted data?)