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Originally Posted by iggyloob12

That’s a lot of coaches to blame. More like, he’s finally playing well consistently, with fewer of the mistakes that typically landed him in the press box.

He's finally playing well consistently because he's finally playing consistently because he's not finding himself in the pressbox after every mistake.

I'm amazed at how many people choose to forget the HIGH calibre of play Kylington gave us for months right before his two or so not-great weeks in January 2019 that made Treliving think acquiring Fantenberg was a good idea. He was every bit this good, and while he was playing third pair, so was his partner Andersson and they were YOUNG for an NHL pair. And the Kylington-Prout pair was highly effective despite the fact that Dalton Prout was no Chris Tanev.

Kylington's past "errors" have always been so beyond overblown.

He's a high event player, who lost confidence the last handful of years because the coaches buried him and neutered him.

Now he getting a legitimate chance at regular icetime with an appropriate partner (and it's been a mutually beneficial pairing!) and doing exactly what he was capable of doing fifty games ago.

Even Rasmus Andersson had this to say about getting regular shifts just a few days ago:

It’s one of those things where everybody keeps looking at ice-times and saying, ‘Oh, he’s playing so much,’ ” said Andersson, who turned 25 on Wednesday, of his workhorsing ways. “But sometimes it’s easier to play those 23 or 24 minutes than it is to play 12 minutes. You get into the game a little bit more. You know what I’m saying? You’re right into it all the time. So sometimes, it’s easier to play a lot than to play less.

“Once you’re in the rhythm, you’re just in the game and you can just play without thinking about it.”

Kylington HAS made mistakes in this stretch of games. Even directly responsible for some goals.

The difference is how the coach responds to them.

At no point in his career has he been a liability, yet he's been treated as such. Which is asinine. Even last year, look at our record when Kylington played versus when he didn't play. But all people wanted to focus on was this misplay at the blueline or this moment where he lost an edge.