Shane Wright is not ready for the NHL and wasn't even one of the best players in the OHL. So that point is mute. It is absolutely in the best interest to get your prospects into games, you dont develop them by sitting them in the pb or not even playing them 10 mins.
Marner and Draisaitl are players that went back to junior when both their NHL teams were dogshit, I guess it didnt really work out for them did it?
then might as well keep him in the OHL then AHL for the rest of his career then...
Best interest in who? The team? Wright? Wright's family? HIs agent? Or people on a message board.
There is way way more to develop a player then ice time and some of it has nothing to do with sports.
if jr majors is the perfect development leagues as what people on this message board think it is then why didn't we send him back with the rest of the jr major players then back in September.
He's one of those inbetweeners stuck between jr majors and the NHL. This is where players who are eligable are played in the AHL. OHL will not achive what is in Wrights or the teams best interest. Nevermind he would be playing with team mates who are teens that aren't as developed as a player and aren't fully mature as a person yet.
Sometimes not always its way better to let the player play with older players who can teach him the ropes of being a NHLer, get better training getting better nutritional coaching especially for higher level activity and overall allowing him to develop as a human being.
All that matter is what he thinks, his parents think and what his agent thinks. Not us on this message board. And as far as i read those that matter in how things are going as whom i listed are on board with it.