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“This is not a league of ‘let’s get a look-see at guys just because,’ ” Green said.

“He’s here for a reason right now, but it doesn’t mean I need to get a look at him. It depends on how we play, how he looks in practice.”

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Green may not want to give Rodin a look, but coaches give players looks all the time in this league. The Canucks got a look at Nikolay Goldobin last year. Brock Boeser, too. If I were betting money, I’d wager they do the same for Adam Gaudette at the end of this season.

Junior-aged prospects get looks in the NHL for nine games to start seasons regularly.

Take the New Jersey Devils’ Jesper Bratt. He played in the same league as Jonathan Dahlen last year, Sweden’s second-tier Allsvenskan. He put up half as many points as Dahlen. The Devils gave him a look to start this season and he piled up 10 points in his first 10 games.

What a find.

Rodin has a much more decorated resume than Bratt. Rodin is not some scrub. In 2016, he won SHL MVP honours, playing only two-thirds of the season in doing so. This is a real player, with real talent.

I’m not saying he deserves an NHL job, but he’s definitely earned the chance to try to earn one — and that’s not happening right now.

The complicated part of the equation has been the situation in Utica. A veteran rule has meant multiple players deemed vets had to be healthy scratches for games.

In four of them already, Rodin was one of the players forced to sit.

So Rodin played just three games in October and the vets who played ahead of him aren’t exactly a who’s who of NHL potential, including Jayson Megna, Michael Chaput, Darren Archibald (who still doesn’t have an NHL contract) and 34-year-old Jaime Sifers.