Was it that bad though? It was certainly the right choice to have him up at the start of the year, the team was missing 6 of it's top 10 forwards and Comtois easily had the highest impact of the rookies/depth guys in their place. At the 9 game mark it would have been tough to send him down, the team was still beat up and Comtois was at nearly a PPG. Then he himself gets hurt, the Ducks get a bunch of bodies back and suddenly the entire outlook is different.