Quoting: Barilko14
It's not that absolute.
It is as close to absolute as anything I have ever seen in hockey. I have looked at every single D drafted in the first two rounds from 2005 until 2016. If they were brought into the NHL as permanent D they were about 90% chance of becoming top-4 Ds. If they were not the chances were about 5%.
Dubas knows this himself and was clear on this: "We don't want our players going up to the Leafs before they're ready, and we don't want them shuttling up and down. We want players to be called up to the Leafs when they're young and on the first two years of their entry-level contracts ONLY when they prove that they can be a Leaf, all the time." Then goes on to talk about how damaging it is to the players.
Even last summer he said he would not use Sandin or Liljegren as injury replacement. Then the team he put sucked and he harmed his best prospects in an effort to save a crappy team.
"Majority of prospects would never make the NHL if they were never allowed to get their feet wet."
A majority of prospects don't make the NHL. And I specifically said young prospects. If a player hits 22 or 23, they are very likely to only be a borderline player and they have reached the age where you can start using them as an injury replacement call up. Maybe they eventually make it full-time, maybe they don't. It doesn't matter.
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Teams don't leave spots for 2/3 prospects per year to make the team out of camp. Not every prospect is good enough to make the NHL out of camp at 20 years old or younger.
So what?
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There's literally 1000s of examples of AHLers bouncing between the AHL & NHL before they stick.
Not true and irrelevant.
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Sure you don't want to do it to a player 20 times, their confidence can take a hit
You don't want your good young prospects doing it at all, period. All the evidence says that. You are free to believe otherwise, but you are completely wrong and if you actually looked into it you would know that.
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but when a guy is the clear 7th or 8th best option (when it comes to D), it makes sense to give them a shot and show everyone involved how close/far they are from the show.
No, you are clearly wrong. While it is true that some teams will give a player a single game to show the player where they are at and how far they need to go, every single team who actually develops good young top-4 NHL Ds does not bring them into the NHL until they are ready to be permanent players.
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Sandin could very well steal a job the way Dermott did a few years back.
Your TB example did it with Cernak in 18/19.
Dermott came into the NHL as a permanent D. So did Cernak. Sandin didn't and all the evidence shows that his likelihood of making it as a top-4 D has dropped dramatically because Leafs' management was too negligent to wait and bring him in responsibly. He is in Connor Carrick, Sbisa, and Mueller territory now.
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Also I don't hate Marincin, and he's a decent 7/8th option, but he does not fit with the current make-up of this team at all. He has no puck moving ability, which is problematic when your team is all about puck possession and transition.
The current make up of the team is a complete disaster.