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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I don't think he minds the reward of the increased paycheck in the NHL. As long as the team was honest about it being only an emergency recall because some guys had the flu.
He was put in a position to succeed, and IMO he mostly looked like an AHLer that game. As long as he gets good feedback from the coaches regarding what they want him to work on, he'll be just fine.
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I don't get the hand-wringing either. Putting him in for a game against one of the better teams in the league gives him some more insight into what it takes to play in the NHL and he goes back down to continue to develop his own game. If young players can't handle that mentally, they probably don't have what it takes to succeed at the top level.