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Originally Posted by Inferno
He's earned the right to be strongly considered to make the team. He hasn't earned the right to be given the starting role right from the start. He'll have to earn that as an NHL goalie.
The goaltending wasn't good enough this season. That doesn't mean it's not going to be good next season.
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I know you guys have this thing as a fan base about the 'always earned, never given' type b.s., but it needs to stop. This is about maximizing your assets and putting your players in a position to succeed. Even if Wolf has a terrible camp, you start him. Because years of success have shown you what he is and what he can bring. And quite frankly, if he isn't that guy at the NHL level, might as well figure that out sooner rather than later, right?
Again, we have to take this development philosophy out of sports and frame it in any other context. YOu have a sales guy that has set records every quarter in his territories. Even as they get bigger and more complex. The guys on your top level clients have been coming up short all year. Are you really going to keep the young guy back because "he hasn't earned it"??? He's done everything asked of him and crushed it. If you don't promote him, in any industry that has any sort of open employment, dude is gone. You've just lost your top earner to your competitor. Obviously that can't happen in this case, but you have indeed disincentivized him.
I just don't see how you can ever tell Wolf to put on an AHL jersey again. If I were him and got told that, I would say, "what for?" And that wouldn't make me weak minded or not loyal, it would make me someone that knows my value.