PeeZus 🦅

Tocchet on David Jiricek and young guys coming in/out of the lineup: “The NHL is a development league to a point. I mean, you can't make mistakes after mistakes, and just say, "Well, let them play out of it." Like, when is that? 80 games? There's got to be some kind of situation. I'm not using [Jiricek] as an example. I'm saying in general, a young player. You know, I was a young player too. There's got to be a baptism, too, of doing the right things. Yeah, you want to play through mistakes, but you can't play through mistakes when the mistakes are always egregious, and I think that's where coaches, I know they get in crap sometimes trying to develop, but when a guy's making big mistakes after big mistakes, you know, it's hard for a coach because it's a result-oriented business. You're trying to find some kind of substance of guys that can hold the fort together.”