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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
ice time ice time ice time.
If you're not giving a U23 player 17+ minutes a night, with players who can nudge them forward, in all situations you project them to play, you are playing them in the wrong league.
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Datsyuk was getting 13 minutes a night when he was 23. Sean Couturier saw 14 minutes a night when he was a teenager.
17 minutes is actually a huge amount for rookie forwards. B. Tkachuk got 16 minutes last year, significant more than his brother got in his rookie season. Art Ross winning Benn was getting 14 minutes as a rookie.
I'd hate to see how good these players would have been if they were developed properly...
Hayes, Marchand, Hoffman, Tkachuks, Benn, DeBrincat, Ennis, Nylander, Larkin, Dubois, Skinner, Aho, Sam Reinhart, Connor, and Marner all saw under 17 minutes in their rookie seasons recently.