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Originally Posted by nik-
There's a lot of "shiny new toy" syndrome on the forum lately. Monahan! .. Sven who?! ... Gaudreau! ... Sven redundant!
It's so strange. Sven is averaging .5 PPG while being totally wasted the first part of last year. I'd say he's doing pretty well.
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It's called panicking & it's eactly what happened in Edmonton in the last 6 or 7 years.
Sort of a vicious cycle; team management pumps the tires of some of it's young prospects in order to placate the masses, the media glums on to & hounds those prospects relentlessly knowing everyone wants daily info on their development, they get rushed into the bigs due to pressure from the fans & lack of ability of the franchise to have established players filling roster holes, then they are thrown in the meat grinder with swelled heads due to all the hype, then fail to live up to the hype & struggle for years.
Wash, rinse, repeat!