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No need to put pressure on Canucks Nikita Tryamkin

The comments of Vancouver Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins about Nikita Tryamkin on Friday were curious in both timing and tone.

I think we can all agree there is still plenty of room van cleef arpels necklace imitation for improvement in the big Russian's game, so the coach wasn't wrong to point out areas Tryamkin must work on to further his development in the NHL. But to single out the 6 foot 7blueliner and somehow suggest that he alone could have altered the result of a third period collapse against Boston earlier in the week seemed completely off base.

It was odd, too, that the comments came less than 24 hours after Tryamkin was one of the very few in a Canucks uniform who appeared to give a damn in a 4 2 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Stars. Tryamkin had an assist, two shots, three hits and tangled with Stars captain Jamie Benn in a second period scrap. It was among the more complete efforts in a Canucks line up that looks too often now like it would simply prefer to fast forward to the end of the season.

Tryamkin's on a short list of the good news stories on the Canucks roster this season. And Thursday's game marked the one year anniversary of replica van cleef necklace his airlift from the Kontinental Hockey League. If anything, the coach should be trumpeting the work many in the organization have done developing the player over the past fake van cleef necklaces 12 months rather than publicly flogging him for the failings of the entire team in a 6 3 loss to Boston.

This is a player who arrived as a curiosity a year ago and now figures to be a fixture on the blueline for years to come. Already a fan favourite, he represents a draft win for the organization a third round pick in 2014 and is a fascinating mixture of raw size and untapped potential who understandably looked scared as a stranger in a strange land and strange league when he debuted against Colorado at Rogers Arena on March 16, 2016.

His first NHL shift lasted all of 12 seconds and, at that, he made it seem like it was about 10 seconds too long as he retreated to the bench without breaking a sweat. At night's end, Tryamkin had logged 11:33 of ice time and picked up an assist in his big league debut.

In his first full season, Tryamkin is now a player who averages 16:30 of ice a night and at times this season has topped 21 minutes. He has been routinely used as a penalty killer. He has a goal and seven assists, and leads the Canucks in both hits and, after his Thursday night tussle, is now tops in penalty minutes, too. All of this from a player who has yet to play a full season in the best league on the planet where we're constantly reminded how long it takes defensemen to develop.

Perhaps because of his physical stature at times I think many forget just how young Tryamkin really is. He's 22 and won't turn 23 until late August. He's the youngest defencemen in the line up, and on the current Canucks roster only Bo Horvat and fellow Russian Nikolay Goldobin are younger. Among his 2014 draft class, only 12 players have logged more NHL game action than Tryamkin and 10 of them were first round selections. So, in many ways he is already way ahead of the curve and will surely get better with experience.

That's why Thursday night and Friday too seemed like a time to celebrate all that the Canucks have in Nikita Tryakmin and just how far he's come in a year. It seemed misguided for the coach to use the occasion to poke holes in the guy's game.

At a time when the organization is promising better days ahead, Tryamkin figures quite literally to be a big part of the next core of the hockey club. Prop him up, don't knock him down. And in a team game, certainly don't point fingers at just one player and make the assertion that he should somehow be able to beat opponents on his own.

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