Couldn't disagree more.
Giving young players opportunity and developing them isn't the same as just giving them everything right away. Just look at how the thrashers "developed" burmi and bogosian compared to Ehlers and morrisey for example. You can't argue with the results .
2015-16, lineup in games 20-31 with average TOI (I took a break from this board during that exact time):
Ladd (20:37) - Little (20:38) - Wheeler (20:03)
Perreault (17:40) - Scheifele (18:01) - Stafford (18:31)
Ehlers (13:38) - Burmistrov (14:12) - Thorburn (11:15)
Lowry (9:59) - Copp (6:39) - Peluso (6:57)
Enstrom (19:24) - Myers (22:36)
Stuart (15:53) - Trouba (21:09)
Chiarot (13:40) / Pardy (13:40) - Byfuglien (24:15)
note:
- Scheifele's icetime down from his 14-15 average 18:35
- Trouba's icetime down from his 14-15 average 23:18
- Lowry's icetime down from his 14-15 average 13:45
This is not what development looks like. That's what it looks like when the coach thinks he has to win, and the only way to achieve that is by playing the few veterans his GM provided him with. I mean he even cut the minutes of Scheifele and Trouba ffs. Things started to change in January.