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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
Textcritic stole my thunder, but I'm not sure it was any different for any other young player. Sven had a few ok shifts during some games, and that was about it. He never had a 1st period where you thought to yourself 'this is the game Sven breaks out'. He was just........there. Look at a guy like Jooris. Do you think he had a longer leash? If anything it was the same or shorter, but he absolutely forced the team to keep him around. If Sven had that same mindset he'd still be around, too. He just didn't make a good enough case for himself, and I cannot put any blame on the coaches for that.
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I think this as well. Pretty much every young/new guy (Wolf, Ferland, yes, even Gaudreau) were basically stapled to the bench in the 3rd at the start of their careers. Harltley is, you know, actually trying to win games and I don't see how Sven distinguished himself to earn that ice time in crunch time.