ANAHEIM, Calif. — The usual tact for NHL head coaches and their top prospects playing their first game in the league is to temper expectations. The better the prospect, the more their coach tries to emphasize that no one should expect him to conquer the hockey world in 60 minutes.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The usual tact for head coaches and their top prospects playing their first game in the league is to temper expectations. The better the prospect, the more their coach tries to emphasize that no one should expect him to conquer the hockey world in 60 minutes. Greg Cronin took the other direction as was to debut for the against on Thursday night. Forget giving him a simple message to go out and have fun. Cronin was already raising the bar for the 18-year-old.
With time winding down and the Ducks trailing, Carlsson took to breaking out with the puck on his own through the neutral zone and giving Terry a pass as he drove into the Dallas zone. Oettinger swallowed the puck for an easy save. But it was indicative of the clean zone entries that Carlsson could give the Ducks. He didn’t like his second period but felt he impacted the game in the third. “Leo got better as the game went on,” Cronin said. “I thought the first period, he was a bit measured.
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