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The six-foot-two, 200-pound centreman was also a minus-three on the night but according to head coach Bob Hartley — who is asked about the kid on a daily basis — it’s better to throw him directly into the fire.
“There’s lots of junior stuff still in his game,” Hartley admitted. “But if we’re going to keep him and not play him, we might as well send him down. I was aware he wasn’t having a very good game from one end to the other, but it was not by a lack of trying, it was probably by a lack of experience."
“It always makes me laugh — a young coach cannot coach in the NHL because he has no experience. A young player cannot play in the NHL because he has no experience. If you don’t play him, you can’t go to Walgreens and buy experience off the shelf or call your doctor for a prescription . . . experience is a combination of success and failures.”
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Just a reminder folks. Hartley is not an idiot.