wmupreds
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- Dec 15, 2022
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Sticking a struggling young player on the ice at the NHL level isn’t the right approach if you have other options. It leads to frustration, more bad play and can destroy confidence. Sticking them in the press box for a couple of games while coaching them up during film and practice is the optimal approach in my opinion. What ever Brunette is doing with the scratches and coaching is ultimately providing positive results for the young guys, not just Tomasino but ALL of them.
Here is an interesting post by someone close to the team with some insight as to what is going on.
Those may well be the reasons for all we know but
-"Giveaways" is a bad, somewhat arbitrary stat fraught with context issues
- There's a good argument to be made that he deserves more PK time given his skill set and results 4v5 this year and most other seasons
- Hits in a vacuum don't really matter at all, they're only useful if done productively
I know that's not your list. Kinda weak though