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Originally Posted by mile
@CliffFletcher
You keep repeating this but history says otherwise.
Clifford, King, Voynov, Martinez, Nolan, Muzzin, Pearson, Toffoli, Shore, Forbort, Andreoff, and Dowd all saw regular time as NHL rookies or sophomores while he coached the Kings.
Had no problem using Leopold, Phaneuf, Lombardi, and Kobasew in his first 2 1/2 years in Calgary either.
If a kid is good enough to play and understands what he wants from them, he'll play them. Whenever Sutter was asked about the AHL guys near the end of the season, he admitted he knew very little about them. It's hard to expect him to slot them in when he hasn't had a training camp to evaluate them.
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You’re right, if the kids are good enough to play, they’ll play. But that’s the thing, the kids proved they weren’t ready to play in Darryl’s eyes. So from Darryl’s perspective, will he roll the dice and hope that they will just figure it out in the offseason, or will he look to find his type of guys that he can depend on night in, night out? Heck, he played the heck out of Michael Stone above the Mackey’s Kylington’s and Valimaki’s.
There will be a lot of pressure on Darryl next season and for a bubble playoff team like the Flames, I don’t know what Darryl’s threshold for mistakes will be, but I doubt the leash will be long. I keep going back to the “entitlement” word he used at the end of the season and it just tells me the type of mindset he’s entering the offseason with.