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Originally Posted by Rhett44
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.
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Harsh, but until we see some top-end prospects break through and realize their potential under his watch, the jury is out on Huska.
I'm not seeing how under-exposing players and being quick to bench them helps grow their confidence at this level.
His ice time and opportunities should be increasing incrementally.
I'd prefer Gridin see 1st line deployment for the Wranglers than be held to less than 10 minutes and watching when the game is in the balance.