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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
The ongoing resistance to handing the youth the keys that has carried over from coaching staff to coaching staff with this team is maddening.
Yup you have to play the right way, but also your threshold for mistakes can't be zero.
Players you have leaned on will reach and pass their best before date and you'll need to fill that role with a younger body at some point.
As you say, the rare time they do give young players an honest chance (usually due to injuries when there is no other choice) those players measure up to the players they are replacing and sometimes even surpass them.
This team has always played things a little too safe. Not just with line ups but it seems like in all areas. And they appear comfortable with the bubble of mediocrity its kept them in for decades.
Just fill enough seats and meet the quota i guess. Its kind of sad that there isnt more ambition radiating down from the very top. I guess that's in part why Murray ranks 31st of owners.
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A team that started the season with two 19 year olds, had a 20 year old break in and take up a full time spot on the shut down line, and then moved a rookie defenseman into the top four has a resistance and isn't giving young players an honest chance?