You can be sure it wasn’t one thing, one mistake, one brain cramp that pushed Ben Chiarot off the Winnipeg Jets’ starting six blue-liners.
The cumulative effect of some of those events, however, caused the 24-year-old from Hamilton, Ont., to trend towards the press box in early November and in all, he sat out for nine November games, including the last seven.
"His play wasn’t where we hoped it would be," Jets coach Paul Maurice said Tuesday. "And that was the reason he came out.