So glad they were playing "meaningful games in March." Their second half of the season nearly rivals the tank years.
I'm legit worried about this. Might be a good player if he can learn, but this has gotta be killing his habits and confidence. I really wouldn't be surprised if he never recovers.
He needs to be in the AHL learning to skate every shift. He needs to be a PPG guy down there, learn he can actually do it, then come up in a year or preferably 2. Instead he's overmatched, doing the little he can and developing bad habits doing so, and basically getting his career derailed. f***ing awful. Any solid AHLer would be better than letting a skilled 21 year old fall apart because he doesn't know the fundamentals and is in over his head too much to learn.
Same thing with Mitts to a degree. I'd rather see us using borderline AHLers rather than ruining future prospects.