Lazlo Hollyfeld
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- Mar 4, 2004
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Well when you bench an offensive defenseman every time they make a mistake, that’s a pretty good way to neuter their game. So no I’m not surprised he did not become a good player and am aware he never put up that many points.
Again, I think that the way his development was handled was egregious. I thought that before all this Babcock stuff came out. Now it just makes more sense.
I remember at the time people being excited we'd have these twin towers in Ericsson and Kindl. The two were constantly compared because they came into the league around the same time and developed under similar circumstances.
Ericsson was a converted forward whose only advantage over Kindl was size, yet Ericsson managed to have a long career with the Wings. Kindl simply never put it together at the NHL level. It happens. When you can't outplay a converted forward taken 291st in the draft who came up at the same time, it's hard for me to believe it's because it's the fault of development.