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Originally Posted by midniteowl
How to rebuild his confidence? Playing with Ryan sure doesn't help, the play kept dying on Ryan's stick.
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I would put him back down the middle where he would get more touches, flanked by Czarnik/Frolik on the left and Neal on the right, show him a lot of tape of himself in the first ~110 games of his career, and tell him to go out there and just focus on having fun rushing the ice with his linemates. No more trying to cycle responsibly, no more trying to rack up "scoring chances" on the forecheck, and let the natural tendencies of playing defensively as a center be the catalyst to better play at the other end.