I feel like people aren't taking his mental state into consideration. By all accounts I've heard he is a very cocky kid - confidence driven. If WD is a players coach with his Masters in Psychology (or whatever it is) maybe he has enough foresight to help JB make the decision about whether its best for him to go to Jr. or not.
By comparision, Draisaitl's situation was quite different, as they did not loan him to his country for WJC, which it was reported he would have liked to participate, and instead sent him down to Jr. anyways, just days after the tourney ended. He happened to take that experience and channel it into what we're seeing now, but he easily could have pouted and Drouin'd
