Tender Rip
Wears long pants
Brian Strait to Shelley Anderson in the Post-Gazette:
"Any call-up I had the last couple of years, I was playing sparingly -- 12 minutes, 10 minutes," he said. "I'm getting a good opportunity here.
"It's nice when you have a coaching staff that shows trust in you. It was a different situation the last couple of years, only playing for 10 minutes and not knowing if I was going to go back out for another shift after I made a mistake."
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I know, easy to say what with the Islanders not having nearly as many established NHL D-men. But still.
"Any call-up I had the last couple of years, I was playing sparingly -- 12 minutes, 10 minutes," he said. "I'm getting a good opportunity here.
"It's nice when you have a coaching staff that shows trust in you. It was a different situation the last couple of years, only playing for 10 minutes and not knowing if I was going to go back out for another shift after I made a mistake."
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I know, easy to say what with the Islanders not having nearly as many established NHL D-men. But still.