BaseballCoach
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preseason games are a joke though, so you can't base it all off that, he had considerable defensive issues in Laval so that's not just going to fix it's self over the summer. So that means you are putting a 20 year old blueliner in the NHL knowing he has defensive issues and within the first 2 games he showed those defensive issues to no one surprise that watched him last year and didn't put any stock in the preseason.
So now we have messed with his confidence, I know some can't stand it when posters call out stupid things that management/coaching staff does and we have no way of knowing if this will impact him in the slightest, but we do know this has been a pattern that we have seen repeated for the past 7 or so years to poor results. Some people just want to stick their head in the sand and say nothing to see here, everything is fine, meanwhile things haven't been fine for a long time. Maybe things will just change despite them making the same moves over and over again with these young player.
I agree. I would have kept 7D and sent Fleury down after praising his camp and telling him to work hard to bring his defensive game up a notch and he'll be back.