Given a chance to play major minutes and skate in a significant role, former Detroit Red Wings forward Filip Zadina was thriving this season.
Playing for Davos of the Swiss League, the 25-year-old right-winger accounted for 21 goals and 34 points in 43 games in his first season outside the NHL.
“In Davos I felt that they took me as a valid player, they gave me a role and I filled it,” Zadina told Czech website Sport Ceskatelevize.
If a similar opportunity were to be presented to him by an NHL club, Zadina would jump at the chance to come back across the Atlantic Ocean.“If something like that could come from America, I would take it 100 percent,” Zadina said. “But on the other hand, I want to look to the future, I want to be a good player who helps the team decide games. And I didn’t have that role in America.
“For me, that move (to Europe) was a smarter move for my development. I believe I’m better now than last year.
