Man, I will have the ultimate respect for Brayden Schenn's character if he can go back to Brandon without missing a beat and light it up. He's been in LA since September, the most glamorous city in NA. Nicest restaurants, weather, shopping, girls and now he has to go back to small-town, snowy BF Brandon. Remember, he's only 19. Sure you can say he's a hockey player he should deal with it, but it's hard from any level to imagine the transition of being demoted again.
It would be really hard mentally to not have a gigantic comedown. Not to mention the paycheques he was receiving while he was up there and now hes back to getting $500 a week. Even now, he's going to be going to the World Juniors now in one of the most frenetic and frenzied atmospheres being in the spotlight of an entire nation who is obsessed with the tourney. Brandon is honestly going to be a ****hole and it's going to be hard for him not to spin his wheels knowing what's in store for him next year (a spot on the Kings). The Wheaties are not doing good by any means (second last in their division), so it's going to be a lot harder than many expect for him to just go back and put up 80 pts in 35 games or something.
In a similar scenario, I'm sure it wasn't exactly thrilling going back to the OHL these last two years wasn't exactly the best thing for Pietrangelo's development either, and he didn't exactly light the world on fire there either. Pietro is now progressing at a great rate because he's up with the big club and learning more about the pro game every day. These are perfect examples of why the NHL, CHL and AHL should come to an agreement of releasing specifically tagged players to play in the AHL at 19.