With all due respect, you’ve admitted you haven’t watched the player in Providence, but now you’re making assumptions about this player’s attitude and effort? That’s quite irresponsible. He’s a 23-year-old player in a developmental league, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with him being scratched. Read the comments from Jay Leach over the weekend and you’ll see that it was simply a learning experience while they have plenty of capable bodies on hand. Cehlarik came back and played well in his next game, while improving this “poor board play” you speak of, although you’ve yet to watch it for yourself.
On the subject of Cehlarik and his alleged “effort and/or attitude problem” cited by UncleRico, here’s a good story about him from last season.
While covering the P-Bruins last season, I remember one specific night that stood out to me. It was after a really bad loss (cant remember the team) where nothing was going right, I saw Cehlarik outside of the locker room while all his teammates were in the locker room, showering, changing, listening to music and joking around like hockey players do. What was Cehlarik doing outside in the hallway, with most of his gear still on, almost 30-minutes after the game ended? He was standing in the middle of a few members of the media, minding his own business and working on his stick with a blowtorch and hand-saw on the work bench. He must have been working on his gear for a solid 20-minutes and was the last player to leave the rink that night.