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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
I wonder - anyone think that the NHL/CHL agreement may have had a hand in this mess?
Maybe if CGY could have sent SB to the AHL first rather than having to choose between a league of teens or a rush to the NHL, this might have turned out a bit differently?
It was clear that another year in the OHL would not help SB, but maybe a year or 2 in the AHL would have.
I think I recall that during their top years DET had a policy of "drafted prospects play in the AHL first. Show us what you can do there, do it consistently, and then you'll move up"
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We rushed Bennett, that’s for sure - but he showed well in his rookie season. Things didn’t go off the rails until Treliving’s bumbling trio of coaches got ahold of him.
Hang this on Tree, Gully, Peters, and Ward.