from Ansar Khan of Mlive,
All of these young players might have played their final game this season.
“Certainly, there’s some potential for development to have been stalled,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. "There was in (Grand Rapids) a potential playoff run, and there’s development involved in that. When you go through experiences in life, you have the opportunity to grow. You don’t always, it’s up to you a little bit, but you have the opportunity to grow, both from good and bad experiences.
"Right now there’s no day to day experience. So for kids in college, for kids in pro, there isn’t that developmental opportunity."
Making matters worse, their training regimens are disrupted due to closures of team and exercise facilities.
“It’s a difficult situation that’s fluid, dealing with prospects in different countries with different regulations,” Shawn Horcoff, Red Wings director of player development, said. “The main thing is staying safe and following the guidelines that government is putting together.”
Horcoff provided an update recently on how some of the organization’s top prospects fared this season:
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