Injuries: Kent Hughes worries about youth development – Canada Boosts

Ah, the injuries…

Title me a Habs participant and I’ll in all probability title you a man who has, lately, suffered an harm. With the doable exception of Nick Suzuki, that is true for a lot of members of the membership.

Some are much less injury-prone than others (Samuel Montembeault and Johnathan Kovacevic are good examples), however for essentially the most half, Habs gamers have been injured for somewhat over two years.

Cole Caufield, Arber Xhekaj, Juraj Slafkovsky, Jordan Harris, Kirby Dach, Alex Newhook, Kaiden Guhle, Justin Barron and Rafaël Harvey-Pinard are all gamers whose improvement has been stunted by harm – or a couple of.

And I’m not even speaking in regards to the veterans.

When a younger participant is injured, it inevitably impacts his improvement. And that’s one thing that Kent Hughes is effectively conscious of, as he is aware of that kids must play to progress. So he’s involved that kids are getting injured so typically.

#GoHabsGo GM Kent Hughes on accidents: I fear for the youthful gamers’ improvement

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As talked about on “The Sick Podcast – The Eye Test” lately, guys not taking part in 82-game seasons isn’t optimum for improvement.

It actually isn’t.

And whilst you can study from being within the stands, it’s not the identical as taking part in. In any case, you need to apply the ideas to see what you might want to work on and what you don’t.

After all, it’s logical to imagine that Hughes hoped for fewer accidents this season. The membership has modified some members of its medical employees, however the harm listing continues to be rising.

The GM mentioned that an NHL participant must be profitable in the long run, not simply briefly bursts. However to realize this, a participant should, after all, keep wholesome.

It’s not proper that that is nonetheless a problem in Montreal.

In bursts

– Owen Beck is happy about taking part in for Canada.

– Certainly.

– Coaching at 10:30 a.m. for the CH.

– Ouch.

– Of notice.