That turnover from Daley is the kind of leadership Cholowski must be learning from the press box.
It was a nice tape to tape pass... to an Oiler in front of the Wings net.
Whether anyone cares to acknowledge it, or agree with it, Cholowski is still on his development curve. Daley is on his retirement track. Blashill is always going to be harder on younger players because he’s a developmental coach and he’s not going to change that philosophy. Benching Daley for poor play doesn’t accomplish anything. Benching Cholowski can be a teaching moment.
Personally I’m not a huge fan of the benching approach, but he’s still managed to develop players fairly well over his tenure. I’ll give Blashill the benefit of the doubt, but the path to returning to a prominent role needs to be made extremely apparent to Cholowski. This isn’t a good coaching strategy if the player doesn’t have a strong understanding of how to improve.