Michkov to be healthy scratched tonight
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Yea, I think the complaints by some that he’s still one of the best 12 forwards and the standards aren’t the same for everyone are missing the point. Developing him properly is more important than just sending out the best lineup. Whether this is the best way to develop him is up for debate, but it’s obviously not the same as taking someone out simply for performance.
Ok, so we can also all pretend Michkov on the development plan - sit two games every 13 games
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Torts said at the beginning of the year, before any regular season games had been played, that Michkov would sit some games. Funny how nobody chirped Carlsson when Anaheim sat him 40% of the time.
Michkov is one of the smartest and most unique offensive players to come into the league in recent memory and people can’t just enjoy it.
I personally think it is dumb to enforce load management on teenagers like ANA, SJ & PHI are doing. Especially when it’s one of your 5 best players. It sends a message that winning is optional, which is much different than a traditional rebuild
Michkov is one of the smartest and most unique offensive players to come into the league in recent memory and people can’t just enjoy it.
I personally think it is dumb to enforce load management on teenagers like ANA, SJ & PHI are doing. Especially when it’s one of your 5 best players. It sends a message that winning is optional, which is much different than a traditional rebuild
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It's not a bad thing. Michkov didn't play such a strenuous schedule in the KHL last year and there are 70 games still to go.
I believe Trots has Michkov's best interests in mind. Of course there has to be a buy-in from the player and this means communication and building trust.
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Well, to be fair, a lot of that 40% Carlsson sat was due to injury. The original plan was to have him play a few games a week, ramp up depending on how he was physically coming along, and be full time by around January. Him getting hurt sort of blew that plan up, but it wasn't like the plan was to have him only play 55 games ... I believe the original plan would have had him only missing about a dozen games total.
It's not about "load management." It's about giving teenagers who are still not physically developed extra time to build up their bodies during the season, and potentially get them physically to a place in a few months, where they'd otherwise not get to until the next offseason. In effect it's a plan to speed up development. You probably wouldn't do it with a 22 year old rookie, and it's not like they're sitting out resting up to save wear and tear.
You always hear from veterans on how the season is so grueling there is really no time during the season to keep all the muscle they gain in the offseasons, so they essentially lose some of the gains from each offseason during the seasons.
Now add that kind of thing to an 18-19 year old that is not physically at there prime and it becomes a major struggle later in the year for those young players to keep up the same energy.
Or maybe Torts didn't see the response he wanted in practice or it was just torts being Torts who knows but it seems to have worked at least for one game and the team got 3 of 4 points in the 2 games he sat.
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Periodization science has become pretty advanced in recent years when it comes to developing young players. Teams will measure every player’s vitals during training and games and pair that with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scores to know exactly how to manage load. RPE is pretty established at this point and I would be shocked if a professional club like Philly and SJ are not using these methods to manage their players.
Michkov looked good tonight and I’m sure Philly will use him for every game they can while making sure they maximize his development curve by giving him proper rest as needed.
Michkov looked good tonight and I’m sure Philly will use him for every game they can while making sure they maximize his development curve by giving him proper rest as needed.
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Is this video AI-generated or something.
Tyson Foerster scored at a higher pace as a rookie two years ago and is trending just fine.
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There was a joke with the sharks board under the wilson era, that was asking who had the best v02 oxygen testing at the draft columbine is who the sharks would be picking.
100% goal+assist+shootout goal and all because Torts healthy scratched him for 2 games, otherwise it definitely wouldn't have happened! Torts is a genius!
