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Originally Posted by Rerun
No I don't think they want to see him fail... I just don't think they are doing all they can to see him succeed...
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It's a marathon, not a sprint. "Success" for Johnny Gaudreau at this point—the very start of his professional playing career—honestly probably has nothing to do with his offensive impact or overall production. Right now, I suspect that the coaches are most concerned with how he is pacing himself through games, and through what is quite literally his first ever extended road trip through more than one time zone. The reason people get a little frustrated with these sorts of discussions is because there really are no answers right now beyond "wait and see." I get the sense that these sorts of questions and concerns being raised now are just not that relevant to what's going on in the bigger picture of Gaudreau's long-term development.
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Originally Posted by Rerun
I'm also not a big fan of making a rookie with 2 games under his belt play a position that's not his normal position. No wonder he's playing tenatively.
If you have to play someone out of position, play a veteran, not a 2 game rookie. Tell Setoguchi to play left wing, not Gaudreau.
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Yeah, maybe. Of course, I wouldn't really know having never had to coach elite level athletes through an exceptionally demanding schedule of competition. Maybe its a bad idea, maybe it isn't. Maybe Hartley has his reasons, maybe he doesn't.