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This is maybe my worst take of all time.
I’m super patient with prospects and I don’t particularly need any of them to be rushed.
But if we’re going to give Dvorsky 9 games this season.
We should do it during the timeframe where the winter classic is one of the games.
Give the kid a reward for the work he has put in and give the event some extra promotion.
It’s still going to be a lot more work for Dvorsky the coming years and I think that expectation can be communicated. At the same time, Chicago will have some highly motivated youth in their lineup (Nazar). Why not meet them with some of our own.
If the 9 games are coming one way or another, seems like a nice thing to do. You’d probably benefit more from what you see from him in this game than some early spring matchup against a bottom feeder.
Plus, maybe if you call him up we can lose 3-2 instead of 3-1 and that’s 2 times the amount of goals we usually score so we’ll all be happy.
So then who would you "punish" by making them sit out the winter classic in favor of a kid who's probably not ready yet? I think it's smart not to call up top prospects until you're 95% sure they're ready to come up full time. Calling him up for a short stint only to send him back down again would be more demotivating than a reward IMO. Once a guy gets a taste of the NHL the last thing he wants is to get sent back down to the A.