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 Adam
Messages: 6804
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| overdue wrote on Fri, 02 November 2018 12:08 |
They know what they have in him. They know he'll be on the team next season barring a freak injury so they can plan their defensive core around that for next season. ( trades,contracts, whatever needs to be done ) He could have stayed this season and done reasonably well. Hopefully Bear gets the call up at some point when he's ready, to inject some offence into the D group. It was the right move but having floundered for so long as an Oilers fan, it's hard to be patient about it.
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I think we need to be okay with it if he isn't on the team next year too. One point in seven games and -5 while facing weak opposition isn't great - I don't think he was ready, and he may not be ready for the NHL next year either. I think the team (and fans) need to slow down expectation that players make the team and start contributing as teenagers. That should be the exception, not the rule.
I'd prefer we take it slow so that the player's confidence stays strong - let him excel at levels below the NHL first - and so that the fans don't sour on him. We've seen before that once Edmonton's "best fans in the NHL" make a decision about a young player, it can be very difficult to change their minds, and they tend to get on the player - both while he's on the ice and while he's in the community. Offensive defencemen are a favourite target for the howling mob here. Better to let him come up slower and hope that doesn't happen.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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