Funny that isn't what a better coach in Brindamour did with Jarvis who had just as bad a stretch the year before last. I mean the Canes have been a better team then the Jets and it seemed that their coach determined the best way to win in the playoffs was to get their talented youngster out of his funk.
Sure a player needs to play his way out of his funk, but a coach needs to provide opportunity for that. The only reason Perfetti got back into the top 6 is because Bone's good vets were screwing the pooch down the stretch and we were in our patented death spiral heading to the playoffs and he was so desperate he had the put the kid in. Low and behold the kid has a massive game and gets the team out of its skid. The team goes onto win 4 in a row with Cole playing really well with 4 points in 4 games but one mistake and he's yanked back out of the lineup to get his vet back up. That is some first rate guidance.
It shouldn't have taken until they were desperate before giving him abother opportunity. Had they given him a chance 10 games sooner I'd imagine he breaks out much sooner.
Other contending teams can find a way to allow their kids to play out of their slumps, but on ours we can't.
The Wright comp is a non starter here. We are talking about a kid how hadn't established himself vs a kid who played at a second line level for 100 straight games.