Jamie McLennan

Yeah, they do.

And they might use one of those guys and try and do something big, whether it's at the deadline or next summer.

So here's the thing.

An organization like Montreal might have four or five guys that could step into the NHL.

Toronto's got one guy.

It's Easton Cowan.

And now he's come out of the break two games in a row, and he hasn't played.

And I find this crazy.

Josh Cloak wrote about this in The Athletic.

And if you were a waiver-exempt player, so a guy on your entry level, you go up and down no problem.

But if you played 16 of your team's 20 games before the break...

You couldn't go down.

You had to take the Olympic break.

They played him 17 games, so he couldn't go down and play for the Marlies.

And then the two games after the break, they're refusing to play the kid.

That makes no sense.

Why would they do something like this?

If you want to showcase Cali Yarncroke or Dakota Joshua, teams know what those guys are.

And if you want to showcase them, don't play them.

You're probably better off not playing them at that point.