you brought this back up into this thread so I’m not sure where the tired of hearing this stuff is from. VK is not in his third year on an nhl roster. He played 20 games last year as a rookie and didn’t make the team this year. Kakko played an entire rookie year being one of the worst players in the entire league with the team not batting an eye parading him around last year. He did nothing last year (unless you consider just not being a liability an accomplishment) and got an increased role despite still not deserving it lol.
if you can’t tell the difference between three years straight with the big club and a cup of coffee once then I don’t know what to tell ya.