Part of the core of the problem is that the organization has, during all of our “win now” and “win…now?” years, prioritized coaching staff who have conscious and unconscious bias against playing younger players.
By that, I mean that Trotz, Rierden and Laviolette have all individually admitted to media they have a traditionalist’s mentality about young guys “earning a spot”—so they *know* they have a bias.
But they also create these self-fulfilling prophecies where young guys can’t prove themselves because they haven’t proven themselves because they can’t get a chance to prove themselves. That is, in my estimation, bad decision making driven by the emotion of wanting to be an “old school hockey guy.”
Because of this idiocy, the organization *voluntarily forfeits actionable information that helps prevent this kind of personnel mismanagement.*
My point is that this is an *interconnected problem* and this writer is correct to reassess it. We ought to reassess it further in the context of questioning how the *organizational structure* let it happen.
ATS606
They could’ve stopped writing after the first sentence tbh.
The way I see it, *at the time* the Caps had solid front end talent and the backend was a logjam of young, but good players, none of whom really separated themselves. *At the time*, they had to share whatever ice time was leftover. Basically coaches and other FO personnel have to figure out who has the best potential to improve and who fills an immediate need (from mostly practice). They have to balance the future and the now between aforementioned points and those decisions are very, very difficult. Even if they ended up being right, *at the time*, they wouldn’t be confident whatsoever. Burakovski is the one that kills me. My issue is of all those young and promising players, I feel like the Caps let them **all** walk and they’re all playing top-1-2 lines for their current teams, which is puzzling.
TweakTheBeef
There wasn’t any miscue, he wasn’t good with the capitals and didn’t fit their squad plans so he was traded. He’s only been good when paired with Mark Stone and outside of that hes been the same mid player
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Part of the core of the problem is that the organization has, during all of our “win now” and “win…now?” years, prioritized coaching staff who have conscious and unconscious bias against playing younger players.
By that, I mean that Trotz, Rierden and Laviolette have all individually admitted to media they have a traditionalist’s mentality about young guys “earning a spot”—so they *know* they have a bias.
But they also create these self-fulfilling prophecies where young guys can’t prove themselves because they haven’t proven themselves because they can’t get a chance to prove themselves. That is, in my estimation, bad decision making driven by the emotion of wanting to be an “old school hockey guy.”
Because of this idiocy, the organization *voluntarily forfeits actionable information that helps prevent this kind of personnel mismanagement.*
My point is that this is an *interconnected problem* and this writer is correct to reassess it. We ought to reassess it further in the context of questioning how the *organizational structure* let it happen.
They could’ve stopped writing after the first sentence tbh.
The way I see it, *at the time* the Caps had solid front end talent and the backend was a logjam of young, but good players, none of whom really separated themselves. *At the time*, they had to share whatever ice time was leftover. Basically coaches and other FO personnel have to figure out who has the best potential to improve and who fills an immediate need (from mostly practice). They have to balance the future and the now between aforementioned points and those decisions are very, very difficult. Even if they ended up being right, *at the time*, they wouldn’t be confident whatsoever. Burakovski is the one that kills me. My issue is of all those young and promising players, I feel like the Caps let them **all** walk and they’re all playing top-1-2 lines for their current teams, which is puzzling.
There wasn’t any miscue, he wasn’t good with the capitals and didn’t fit their squad plans so he was traded. He’s only been good when paired with Mark Stone and outside of that hes been the same mid player