Hodge
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- Apr 27, 2021
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What kind of participation trophy bullshit is the idea of "rewarding" professional athletes for scoring in an exhibition game with AHL rosters?Right now, it should be the Sharks. There's not a good reason to not reward his performances thus far and, assuming he continues this through the preseason, they should slot him into one of the top three lines. If he fails to produce then you have options to fill his spot and can send him down. If he produces, you have a largely expendable winger to trade for value that wasn't Grier's guy.
Warsofsky said it on day one of camp. The 20 most competitive guys will play. Clearly he doesn't consider Gushchin one of them.
When the Sharks cut Noah Gregor from camp in 2021 he went down and scored 12 points in 8 games for the Barracuda. That's what we need to see from Gushchin. Leave zero doubt that you're too good for the AHL. He hasn't done that yet.