"Look there's some youth, therefore your opinion is totally invalid."
Well the argument isnt about the non-existence of young players, its about this ever persisting proclivity of the team to lean on its vets to an inordinate degree regardless of performance before giving similar opportunities to their younger counterparts.
2 weeks of Gridin, Honzek, Parekh and Kuznetsov (after taking the roundabout way of sending him down when he was ready on day 1 only to stumble into the that realization through forcing worse more experienced alternatives for far too long when the answer was under their noses) is a pretty meager contingent of youth for a team in an unofficial rebuild.
Zary and Coronato have been around a couple of seasons now so they aren't in the recent promotions category any more.
That Kuznetsov promotion could have happened a lot sooner and it required Miro and Bean fumbling their opportunities and some injuries to pave the way for it to happen.
The point is rookies cracking the big team should not be this arduous and lengthy of a process, especially considering the current state of the organization.
Hopefully moving a couple of bodies and solidifying themselves as a bottom 3 team fixes this issue, but we will have to see.
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