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| Ryder Ritchie is having a great rookie season with the Raiders. |
When a team is going through a reload/rebuild phase, the biggest thing a club can provide is hope. Hope can come from knowing an honest effort is there.
Sometimes, it is hard to know if the effort is there after a bad loss, but it is possible to lose in a bad fashion on the scoreboard and still put in a good effort. There are times efforts are good and honest, but bad decisions are made due to lack of experience. Also, that is why players are in the WHL is to have experiences both bad and good that you learn from to become better.
Hope can also be created when you can see noticeable improvement in players, especially young players. A 16-year-old rookie winger with the Raiders, Ryder Ritchie fits into that department.
This column of mine appeared in the Prince Albert Daily Herald. To read the full article, feel free to click the link right here.
