Kudos to Frolov’s Agent

Congratulations, Sergei Isakov.  You’ve done well to sell your client, Alexander Frolov, to a new team, the New York Rangers.  Frolov is a talented player who is hitting his prime and surely has plenty of talent left to offer.  Desire, however, is another thing. As we’ve heard time and again, Frolov didn’t have the best relationship with Kings coach Terry Murray.  His role on the team diminished from a 1st line offensive role, to a 3rd line complementary scoring role.  Yet, there are differing accounts of why this move was made. From the Kings organization’s side of things, it was a coaching move.  Terry Murray didn’t see Frolov playing with the type of grit and desire he wanted from him and demoted him.  This happens all the time.  A player isn’t giving it his all and the coach will demote him to a lower line, or bench him, or just scratch him.  Hopefully it will light a fire under the player and illicit a positive response.  Sometimes it produce...