As far as the whole disappointing season goes, I agree. I defended Juolevi, but you are lying to yourself if you think he hasn't disappointment. His play has stagnated and it's just as I feared there is nothing to be learned from staying another year in London. This kid needs to learn to hold onto the puck and try to do something offensive with it, he can't keep doing the same thing and not learn, he's plateauing at this level. Not to say, he's outgrown this level, just that he's become content at this level. It's awfully similar to Virtanen's last year in junior, how he's really not learning anything just doing what he always does. If you don't push yourself to try to make yourself better in all aspects of the game you are simply not going to be that good. Juolevi needs a shake up, send him to Finland.
See a guy like Sergachev, or Bean they both have grown despite their point totals being down. Bean has been forced into a defensive role and has come out even, Sergachev too. Juolevi has seen his offensive role decrease and his defensive role remain stagnant. I don't blame Juolevi for this, this is really a big fault of our development staff who aren't on point with what role the players need to play. Our development staff is garbage tier, and it shows. Look at McCann, Virtanen, Corrado. The players are largely responsible for their own development, which is incredibly dumb, because they are essentially teenagers so they are going to make mistakes and you need to be incredibly clear to them. There's a reason why we can't develop anyone, and when they do develop like Horvat it's all self improvement on their own terms. Horvat went through lengths to improve his skating and hiring a private skating coach, that wasn't on the club but on Horvat.
So frustrating.
