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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
This season, before the trade deadline, the team was 23-6-5 with Kylington in the lineup, with him having some huge games for us and him having serious offensive impact while being solid defensively. He looked on his way to earning a bigger role and the only argument against him was that Hanifin was doing fine up the lineup.
Since the deadline he's suddenly been relegated to pressbox filler, having logged one whole game and the team is below .500 since the deadline. If I were Kylington I'd be pretty annoyed watching the team keep scratching me. The sitting in a chair thing might be pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, but the sitting in the press box part would not be.
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I am sometimes awestruck by your ability to spin a narrative...
Kylington has been a nice surprise this season. He has played a bunch of good games, and shown a tonne of growth since his first pro year in Stockton. However, he has especially more recently been prone to more mental mistakes, and hasty decisions, which are invariably suffered by pretty much all NHL rookie defensemen. Moreover, he has been a little banged up, and missed a couple of games for maintenance.
He is a 21-year-old rookie with a blazingly bright future, and by his recent NHL feature appears like a really well grounded, smart kid. I am quite sure based on everything I have seen on the ice and in the media that Oliver Kylington has a better grasp on the situation than you do, and while recognizing his place on the team and his current role is not so prone to emotional damage by his time in the press box.