why says anything about special treatment? He should have been in the AHL as he struggled with his defensive play so how do you expect a player to improve that over the summer?
it's worked great for us so far, Leblanc, Tinordi, DLR, McCarron, Beaulieu, Scherbak, Juulsen.
in terms of call them up from the AHL, play them a few games, they make a costly mistake or two, get benched, then next game they are in the press box, before long they are back in the AHL, rinse, repeat....
Then there's the players they didn't do that to,
Gallagher, Leks, Galchenyuk, Kotka plus you could throw Mete in as they didn't send him down till his 2nd year and it was just for 2 weeks.