How much could De la Rose have been ruined in 34 AHL games in 2015-2016, which was seen as a critical year in his stalled development? Pretty much the same amount of games as Juulsen this year no? You don't think these 3 months as a pro helped Juulsen at all in rounding out his game?
The "on pace for 10 goals" doesn't mean much as JDLR wasn't much of an offensive force when he played 33 games in 2014-2015, and you're presuming he could've reached that. One tip in goal and an empty netter (the other two goals I don't remember) if I remember correctly, really nothing to write home about.
If anything, bad management stalled his development/confidence by bringing him up and then retrograding him, not the guys in Laval specifically. He's shown improvement in 2015-2016, and in 2016-2017 where he scored 14 goals. Then again, he was never seen as an offensive player at any level.
The people who constantly **** on the Laval coaching staff just don't have much to say and are trying to fit in here with the general agenda.
It wouldn't have been 34 AHL games, it would have been 71 by then and then 133 after the next season. I watched in at 18 in the SHL and thought he looked good, in his rookie year in Hamilton at 19 he didn't produce much because he wasn't handled very well. He was playing 4th line and it wasn't until they moved him up after the WJC's and put him in a better position he started to produce and then of course they called him up to the NHL too soon. But he imo looked his best in the NHL at 19, and I'm not counting games this March when the Habs are limping to the off-season. So for me that's clear regression.
Now you say presuming he could have scored 10, which maybe he wouldn't have. Well he scored 4 in 33 games and then over 3 years he scored 1 in 67 games. I don't know how that's not regressing.
Yes bad management has their share of the blame as well as does Timmins and his staff to join the development side.
As for people constantly complaining about the Laval coaching staff, that's just bull shit. They have every right to complain about the job our AHL coaching staff has done. I consider myself a huge fan of our AHL teams and usually every year I follow/watch them very closely. I hate this coaching staff, I have been saying it for years, I think they are doing a terrible job because I think we have one of the better scouts and I think the AHL coaching staff make a lot of poor decisions that at least to me are not a good way to develop prospects.
