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Originally Posted by Stampede2TheCup
Its ONE GAME. He’s averaging over 13.5 minutes this season and is getting looks on the power play. He’ll have more opportunity when one or more forwards get traded away. Countless rookies across the league get the same approach coming into the league and end up completely fine. Have patience.
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He is actually going down in ice time the last few games. From 15 minutes to 11 minutes to 9 minutes. He has also played a grand total of 8 games.
I will not back down from my position on this. Gridin is one of the key players right now to our future. He is our top winger prospect and I do not appreciate our coaching staff playing games with him.
We have already heard from Parekh how his confidence was completely destroyed this year prior to world juniors. So we had our best defensive prospect getting benched every mistake he made and now the same thing is happening to our top winger prospect. These are important players to the Flames and they will both be on the team in 5 years, while Huska will not.
We have seen in the past how these poor coaches can ruin a great player (Bennett). And I am getting flashbacks to seeing Bennett benched for stupid crap and losing his confidence. All I'm going to say is Huska either needs to learn how to develop young players, or let them play in the AHL until we can get a coach who can do that.
This is not the time for us to be playing games with the future of our organization. I'm tired of Huska rewarding piss poor effort from vets with more ice time, and treating our prospects with a different standard. And I do not want another Bennett situation happening because we have dollar store coaching.