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Originally Posted by dobbles
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.
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Well I think you touched on the most likely outcome from not getting him on the NHL roster to start next year and that's disincentivizing him and killing all the momentum he's built.
Telling a star prospect like this that he lost out to two guys because of a mediocre camp that were nearly both the worst at the position in the league last year could really hit Wolf between the ears.