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Darkon · 07-26-2019, 01:30 PM

Seeing as it is the dog days of summer and the Lucic/Neal talk seems to have died down a bit, I figured I would ask for some help in understanding DEVELOPMENT.
I hear this so often "player A" wasn't developed properly, while "Player B" is finding success and was obviously developed properly! Well what does proper development look like?
I suppose this is really coming from looking at a player like Puljujarvi.
CP posters mostly say Puljujarvi is as dumb as a brick but could still be developed by another team because the Oilers suck at development.
Oiler fans seem, currently, to be a mixed bag of "Puljujarvi sucks and is a dumb hockey player, but the Oilers org completely screwed him over and failed to develop him properly" or "Puljujarvi is still awesome and the Oilers org and Puljujarvi's agent, completely screwed him and mismanaged and failed to develop him properly".
I guess I am asking those who are smarter than me and have higher hockey intellect and experience to please help me understand better this strange, seemingly inaccurate science of hockey development? How does a team properly develop from draft to contributing team member? and what are some of the steps/checkpoints along the way?

07-26-2019, 01:30 PM	#1
Darkon Backup Goalie Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: BC, Canada Exp:	Development Seeing as it is the dog days of summer and the Lucic/Neal talk seems to have died down a bit, I figured I would ask for some help in understanding DEVELOPMENT. I hear this so often "player A" wasn't developed properly, while "Player B" is finding success and was obviously developed properly! Well what does proper development look like? I suppose this is really coming from looking at a player like Puljujarvi. CP posters mostly say Puljujarvi is as dumb as a brick but could still be developed by another team because the Oilers suck at development. Oiler fans seem, currently, to be a mixed bag of "Puljujarvi sucks and is a dumb hockey player, but the Oilers org completely screwed him over and failed to develop him properly" or "Puljujarvi is still awesome and the Oilers org and Puljujarvi's agent, completely screwed him and mismanaged and failed to develop him properly". I guess I am asking those who are smarter than me and have higher hockey intellect and experience to please help me understand better this strange, seemingly inaccurate science of hockey development? How does a team properly develop from draft to contributing team member? and what are some of the steps/checkpoints along the way?