“It
would be open-ended,” Armstrong said of Holloway’s RFA status. “When I look at a player like Philip Broberg, he
started the season in one area and he ended in the same area and it
was in the same four or five percent. Dylan Holloway did not start
the year the way he ended it. So Dylan Holloway has to prove to
himself and the league that he’s an 82-game player to that level
that he played at the end. I think he is, but what I think is really
irrelevant. It’s what he does. There’s more based on what Broberg
did to what ‘Holly’ did, there’s more gray in that area in him. And
that’s just being an honest answer. We need a consistent 82-game
play. I think he’s got it in him. I sure do, but I can’t have it
both ways saying I don’t look at the post-Olympic thing when teams
weren’t taking us serious and you do all your scoring when no one
takes us serious. Well, when teams are taking us serious, how do we
play? We all have to answer that. We all have to answer that question
better.”
