GGpX
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My opinion on young players getting spots on the team has always been, you can't give it to them. They need to steal a job and prove they can keep it, similar to what Jake Evans did.
Jake Evans' career trajectory is exactly how I would want my prospects to make it. Force them to improve, force them to steal someone else's job and force them to give the coach no other option but to remain in the lineup.
"Giving" spots to players before they're ready, hello Galchenyuk/KK/Latendresse/etc, is counter-productive.
I think Poehling's good enough to be an NHLer and I still think that he can be a third line center. Just a reminder, Danault was drafted in 2011, spent 2 & a half full years in the minors and only became an NHL regular in 2016, nearly 5 years later. Not even a good NHL regular, a spare body type of regular. Poehling was drafted in 2017, it's been four years. Had he not gotten a concussion at the beginning of his first pro camp, I think he would have made the team then and who knows what would have happened after that.
I have the feeling Poehling's going to come in and have an excellent camp, forcing them to keep him around.
Jake Evans' career trajectory is exactly how I would want my prospects to make it. Force them to improve, force them to steal someone else's job and force them to give the coach no other option but to remain in the lineup.
"Giving" spots to players before they're ready, hello Galchenyuk/KK/Latendresse/etc, is counter-productive.
I think Poehling's good enough to be an NHLer and I still think that he can be a third line center. Just a reminder, Danault was drafted in 2011, spent 2 & a half full years in the minors and only became an NHL regular in 2016, nearly 5 years later. Not even a good NHL regular, a spare body type of regular. Poehling was drafted in 2017, it's been four years. Had he not gotten a concussion at the beginning of his first pro camp, I think he would have made the team then and who knows what would have happened after that.
I have the feeling Poehling's going to come in and have an excellent camp, forcing them to keep him around.