Colorado Avalanche: What Sending Tyson Jost to the AHL Means
Other Rationale for Demoting Jost
When you peruse Twitter concerning the Tyson Jost demotion, you get some, well, 💩:
Proper move and I'm so happy it happened 🙏
— Avalanche Forever (@citchmook) January 17, 2019
About time.
— John D Sullivan (@westusooner) January 17, 2019
However, a lot of fans on Twitter are a little more sensible about why the Jost demotion might be good for him. Mostly, it has to do with his development — people seem to think having success in the AHL will give Tyson confidence that he can translate to the NHL. I mean,
were his statistics prior to turning pro:
In case the above table is wonky, as it sometimes is, the highlights of his stats include the following:
- 86 points in 43 games followed by 109 in 33 at Bantam level
- 45 points in 46 games followed by 104 points in 48 games at BCHL level
- 15 points in 7 games at Canada U-18 (busted Conor McDavid’s record)
- 35 points in 33 games at University of North Dakota
Seems like some confidence-boosting at lower levels already happened, but I’m going to get to the player development in a moment.
One of the best-argued tweets concerning the Jost demotion came from Jesse Montano at BSN Avalanche:
I just sent this to someone, and I didn’t feel like retyping it/trying to get it shortened down enough to fit into a tweet. Here’s what I think about the Jost situation 👇🏻👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/W5mg2vrGxN
— Jesse Montano (@jessemontano_) January 17, 2019
Montano’s aguments are well-argued, and I’ll get to them in the next slide.
Not all Avs fans on Twitter are delighted:
Think of it this way - if Jost goes down and completely dominates while being on the Eagles, you can reaffirm it’s because of a different coaching staff.
— Jesse - 96🏆 01🏆 22🏆 (@JBarb87) January 18, 2019
However, my biggest worry, and I think it’s unlikely to happen - is that he goes down and struggles still.
However, in case you think I’m informing all my opinions from Twitter, let’s see what other sports reporters and fellow bloggers have to say.
From Evan Rawal of Mile High Sports:
"“The organization has decided to take a longer-term approach with the development of Tyson Jost by demoting him to the AHL Colorado Eagles …If the Avs are really looking to revitalize Jost and get something from him in the long term, it would be best for them to leave him in the AHL the rest of the year so that he can develop some confidence, and bring that confidence back to the NHL next season. This shouldn’t be seen as giving up on Jost, but as the Avs trying to get the most out of him, and in order for that to happen, they need to commit to his long-term development.”"
That word, development, again. Here it comes from Mile High Hockey:
"“Jost hasn’t been able to show the development you want from a player with his pedigree.”"
And here the idea comes in a different form from Avs insider Adrian Dater:
"“The Avs are hoping he can get some confidence back in his game at the AHL level, then maybe come back later in the season to be a regular contributor.”"
Our own Callie Agnew used the word development, too:
"“Let the AHL develop his game further then the NHL has. The AHL is full of young players like Tyson trying to make the big team.”"
What’s interesting is that Ryan Clark of The Athletic doesn’t focus so much on development. Instead, he brings up another strain — coach Jared Bednar may have seen himself as limited because of some of the other players on the team. Bednar tried Jost up and down the lineup, and the 20-year-old didn’t click immediately in any spot.
I will be focusing on that momentarily.
But first — the development of Tyson Jost.