Of course he is, or he'd be in LHV.
There's a lot of reasons to bench young players for short periods, they're taking games off, they're making the same mistakes over and over, they're freelancing and not playing within the system. You don't think Hextall doesn't know what's going on when those decisions are made?
I think with Sanheim, they looked at the film, he looked a bit overwhelmed, they sat him for a couple games, probably sat down with him and went over what he was doing wrong, and he'll go back into the lineup.
I thought Gordon's comments on Myers were telling about him having a much steeper learning curve than Sanheim. Anyone who's taught for a living knows you have a spectrum of talents in a class room, and I'm sure it's the same in athletics - some guys just get "it," like Provorov, others take a while to translate what they're taught in the film room to the ice or field. Sanheim may just be a slower learner.
It's the same in every sport, Peyton Manning had it down cold in his second season, Eli took 8 years to figure it out.