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Originally Posted by Nehkara
That's all well and good and I understand the concern... but how do you keep him off the Flames if he has 3 goals and 4 assists in 6 preseason games. You don't have a ton of choice but to keep him up.
How do you tell the kid in training camp, "Johnny, it doesn't matter how good you play. We don't think you can play a full NHL season so you get to play in Adirondack this year."
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Plus, with Gaudreau, he can make the team out of camp, and if he does start to struggle in the middle of the season and lose some confidence, they can send him down to Adirondack at that point.
He's not an 18 or 19 year-old junior player. There's no 9-game contract burn issue or a concern that if you send him down, you can't recall him. He could go back and forth between the NHL and AHL a half dozen times and it wouldn't make a difference.
With Bennett, they need to consider those other factors. With Gaudreau, they don't.