I'M perfectly aware of his situation (both this year and last) but the fact is he's never been given a chance by the organization and he's behind less talented guys on the depth chart. In my books, Nygren & Tinordi are ahead of every other D prospect we have yet it's only Tinordi we ever hear about and he's the only one of the two who's gotten NHL time.
If Nygren ends up leaving the team before ever being given a shot at making it, it'll be a big mistake.
I call bull **** on that one. I really loathe posts that claim the Habs "never gave him a fair shake" or "management doesn't like him." It would have to be exceedingly rare for any organization to keep a player they don't like. In most cases they're traded and case is closed. I truly can not think of a single case where an organization intentionally tried to destroy a players career by insisting they stay within the organization and than purposefully do what they can to make him a worse player. It's a nonsense rationale and has zero basis in reality.
Given that he WAS in fact given a chance and brought over to NA to play with the Bulldogs last year, he did nothing to impress. In fact, he walked out on the team because he didn't like of feel safe in Hamilton. Does this sound like a guy who's doing his best to impress the organization into giving him a shot? Hells no.
You can ***** about Lefebve or Hamilton so much much we've all had teachers we hated when we were in school. Thought were unfair or didn't like us but most people don't drop out because of them especially when you're so close to reaching your goal of becoming an NHLer.
That's only what we know after the fact, most people have no clue what goes on in the dressing room and with the team. In the AHL, they have that much less information. So given the fact that Beaulieu, Tinordi, Pateryn etc did just fine in Hamilton, I find it hard to believe there's some conspiracy to ruin Nygren's career.
Maybe Nygren should look in the mirror for the answer as to why he is where he is and what he wants to do for the rest of his life. As it is now, he hasn't shown any real desire to become an everyday NHLer.
