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Originally Posted by lanny9
I agree that street played a good game, but at the same extent you are trying to develop the young talent that are your future. You cannot play these guys 11 minutes a game and expect them to improve. If you are not willing to give them the minutes you have to send them down where they will play in a situations and be able to improve their game. But again they will only improve so much at the lower levels, they need time against NHL caliber players.
Like I say, it is only one game, I will watch the next few before making any judgement on players and coaching.
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Agreed, maybe a better balance is needed; however, both Sven and Monahan actually got more ice than Street, and Street was much more impressive when he was on the ice.
Just think some posters are way too enamoured with the sexy prospects and think they can do no wrong. When Iggy broke in, he wasn't handed 20 minutes a night right away. There were some tough learning experiences for him too. Plus I always see these posters commenting on how great the Oilers do it with Eberle, Hall, RNH, Yakupov and how they load them up with ice time, well, sure those players put up points, but do they win? Can they hold leads? Can they defend? Not really.
You have to teach the kids to play defence properly and to compete in the defensive end when they are young. THat's how it gets ingrained into their game and that's how they become winners. Oilers have some great young players, but they aren't winners, yet. They won't be winners, till those young guys start competing in the defensive end.