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Any advice for the young man who’ll be slipping on a Flames’ jersey the way he did 16 years ago?
“Go, play your heart out, listen and learn to adapt in the way the organization wants,” is his reply. “Sometimes that’s a role change. Maybe even a position change. Those are the difficult things prospects face. To make that team, I had to fit the Brian Sutter mold a bit. Right or wrong, that was the way.
This is what worries me about Nichushkin... I am not convinced that he will have the willingness to do what is necessary to be an NHLer. Not everyone can make it big without changing their game and adapting.
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