https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bruins/peter-cehlarik-hits-bench-getting-away-playing-bruins-way
Cassidy giving it to Cehlarik (benching)
Yikes... even adding extra mustard commenting about him being sent down/trade deadline etc.
Maybe they had an argument?
Can someone explain what Cehlarik screwed up so bad on?? I didnt catch it... end of 2nd on the defensive end?
Reading between the lines here, (and you really don’t have to dig that deep because Cassidy lays it out) it seems to be either an attitude or aptitude problem:
“He’s here in the NHL. He’s earned his right to be in the lineup. I think we’ve used him up in the lineup with [David] Krejci. We’ve used him with Charlie Coyle, two very good players,” said Bruce Cassidy, who said the benching was because of "
his routes, responsibility away from the puck and managed it at the end of the second period in your own end."
“So I think at some point the responsibility falls on the player to be ready to play, and play the Bruins way. I thought he got away from that a little bit, so that’s it.
“Only he can answer whether he’s frustrated or [tired from] the travel. It’s certainly not the hour travel [from Providence]. Maybe the fact that he got sent down might have bothered him. I don’t know, I can’t answer that. We made some decisions at the deadline to – as much as for roster purposes than anything. We got past that. He got called up because he deserves to be here, and tonight we just made a decision to just cut back and use other people.”
Cassidy pretty much comes right out and says it. Either Cehlarik “isn’t getting it” or doesn’t want to.
Seems pretty clear to me