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Originally Posted by stemit14
Have to give credit to this coaching staff and management group… their roster moves have made sense pretty much every time. And they are following through on their promise to give young guys a real chance on the team.
Felt like in recent years, the obvious or more exciting option for a call up was often not made in place of a veteran fourth line guy. Take today’s call up. Instead of bringing up Coronato, they would have brought up a fourth line veteran AHL player and just moved someone up from the existing fourth line to fill Posposil’s spot. Or if they did bring up a young top six forward from the farm team, the coach would usually limit his minutes instead of giving him a real opportunity.
Today, we have an exciting young sniper coming in who is not only going to get top six minutes on a scoring line but also some powerplay opportunity. Also, we’re bringing in Klapka who has all kinds of upside and adds a different element to the fourth line with his size and skill. These guys are being given the best opportunity to succeed.
They might struggle. They might do great. Either way, at least we will get to see them given a proper chance to show what they can do.
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I mostly agree, and I like the youth movement, but even Sutter put young players in a position to succeed.
He put Ruzicka, then Dube with Toffoli and Lindholm
He put Pelletier with Huberdeau and Kadri
He put Kylington with Tanev
He put Duehr on the 4th line
Sutter gets a bad reputation because of how he answered the Pelletier question in the media, and because he didn't put Phillips/Valimaki/Mackey in the lineup. Well all 3 of those players are healthy scratches or in the AHL. Everytime a young player ran with an opportunity he was given more rope.