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Keep The Kid On The Roster Or Not?
by Paul on 10/20/09 at 07:06 PM ET
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from the CP at the Sporting News,
Don Maloney has plenty of on-the-job experience when it comes to evaluating whether a teenager belongs in the NHL. Over the past two seasons, Peter Mueller, Kyle Turris, Viktor Tikhonov and Mikkel Boedker have all spent significant time with his Phoenix Coyotes before celebrating their 20th birthday.
There’s been a slight change in philosophy this season for the Coyotes, who are off to a solid 5-2-0 start. Mueller, now 21, is the team’s youngest player because Turris, Tikhonov and Boedker are skating for the team’s top affiliate, AHL San Antonio.
Maloney acknowledges now that he probably shouldn’t have relied on so many teenagers in the past.
“If a 19-year-old player is on your NHL roster and not producing 30 goals or playing 25 minutes, you really should have him somewhere else,” Maloney told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. “And yet, that’s the fantasy world. The real world we live in now is we’re all scrambling to put the best players we can find into our roster to help us win.”
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