[DazzlinDino]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle

I agree it has nothing to do with earning "rope" or "leeway". It has to do with how much you care about developing each individual player.

The Flames, don't give two ####s about developing Glencross. He is what he is, and he will not develop into any better player than he is. Therefore, unless they feel Glencross is mailing it in and poisoning the team culture (maybe he is I don't know) there is no point in benching him. Probably the best course of action for Glencross to find his game is play through it...........but who knows.

Sven on the other hand, the Flames are very concerned with what he will become. They likely hope he's a key player, if not maybe even a franchise player for us down the road. So, if there are even small things he's not doing, and either refuses to do, or doesn't understand how to do, and the Flames coaching staff feels the only way to motivate him to do it is take away ice time, or the only way to make him understand is to have him watch, the you do it.

People need to stop oversimplifying this. It's not as black and white as "coach has one set of rules for veterans and another for rookies". Give you head a shake. It's that coach has a different development plan for every single team member on this team, vets and rookies alike, that requires different things to be worked on and different methods to be used to reach each players goals.

No company, let alone sports team worth it's weight evaluates employees or staff with one treatment path for all, each person needs something different and gets different treatment, good and bad. It's not fricken McD's where the jobs are so simple that its one consistent treatment path for all and one way to succeed and be reward for all, it's far more complex and individualized than that.

I agree with most of this but the bolded part I disagree. I am not sure if Glencross is injured, but him playing uninspired hockey rubs other players. While the team is playing hard some of Glencross's plays have been questionable and risky. We can attribute a couple games where his plays have potentially affected the outcome. The team has been on a high, winning, playing hard and then Glencross carelessly tosses the puck down the ice with less than a minute to go. The other game I recall was also right at the end of the game we needed a goal and he does a back pass to the opposition player at the blue line and skates the other way. I think benching Glencross might not be a bad idea, but letting one guy kill plays at the end of games is just brutal. I am not a big fan of letting him play through that.