Yzerman said he maintains the same approach when it comes to rookies going to the AHL for additional seasoning or making the NHL squad out of Training Camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to put a 23-man roster in on Monday,\u201d Yzerman said. \u201cEvery year we have to do that. Any young player, if we think they\u2019re ready and we think they\u2019re going to play, we meet with the coaching staff and what\u2019s your plan, understanding the plan changes daily, but if they\u2019re going to play and they\u2019re ready to play, we\u2019re more than happy to keep them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yzerman mentioned Lucas Raymond, who earned his way onto Detroit\u2019s 2021-22 Opening Night roster and finished his rookie campaign with 57 points (23 goals, 34 assists) in 82 games, as an example of that process playing itself out.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour years ago, we thought for sure he\u2019s going to play in Grand Rapids this year,\u201d Yzerman said about Raymond. \u201cFrom Day 1 of camp, he was really good and never looked back. We try to keep an open mind with it. It\u2019s not set in stone that a player has to go to the American League for an x number of years or games or whatever. Kind of let their play dictate when they\u2019re going to be on the roster and to some extent, how the coaching staff plans to use them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yzerman said he maintains the same approach when it comes to rookies going to the AHL for additional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-219678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}