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Old 10-15-2021, 02:10 PM   #4456
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Originally Posted by timbit View Post
Little bit of embellishment, or at least not full context, in your comment. Conroy also stated that Sutter, understandably, was trying to make sure the team was ready to start the season.
Sure, I provided one sentence for a 6 minute segment. Context can be had by anyone who wants to listen to it.

Semi-verbatim of the key points, and anyone can judge for themselves:

"I would have liked young guys play with veteran guys"

"...with some teams you see a young guy with two stars to see how he does. With our team, we didn't even scrimmage to see [prospects] mixed in"

"Darryl wanted to start practicing as a team, we have a lot of turnover, [Darryl] want to work on things right from the beginning ... I understand why he wants to do it, but the management side, you always want to see the young guys get a chance with the big group"

"If we would put Ruzicka with Johnny and Tkachuk, or you always want to see him with NHL players so you can get a gauge."

Darryl was all business. He wanted to play a certain way, and certain guys and certain lines, so did we give prospects a ton of PP time or PK time? We didn't even see the young kids or even the AHL guys who were pushing. You would have like to see them in a few better positions"

"I understand, Darryl wanted to get ready for the regular season, and that was his main focus"
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