Quote:
Originally Posted by deantime419
5 game rule only applies to junior eligible players
|
That was quite the embarrassing faux pas on my part. You are correct and I should have remembered that.
Oopsies aside, the answer was plain and simple ice time. They want Oleksiak getting big minutes and that wasn't going to happen in Dallas. Better for his development in the long run, and he can now take this taste of the NHL and go back to Austin and hone his skills. This was Nieuwy's exact quote...
Quote:
|
“We were very happy with how he’s played, but we think he got a taste of it, and now he can build on that taste with more minutes in the minors,” said Nieuwendyk. “We left him with the message: Go work on your game, use what you have learned, and the next time we call you back, we expect you to have moved to an even higher level.”
|
