I agree. Personally, I'm VERY disappointed in his lack of development and improvement in several different aspects of his game. He's had several seasons with The Blues, and still hasn't improved his moves and shooting when driving in on goal. Ascoring forward should have been constantly working on that while in Juniors, and also during his first few or several seasons in The NHL. He HAS finally improved a bit in his play both on offence, and on defence, when he doesn't have the puck. He has been making an effort to back check some, but it's more sporadic than it should be. He seems to be skating harder and trying harder more often, but still coasts at times. All the while, Thomas has been improving much more and pretty much steadily. He is a fast skater and a good shooter from the slot and mid-distance, in general, but seems to lack both offensive and defensive awareness compared to other relatively young scoring forwards with his level of NHL experience. Personally, I'd like to see Armstrong trade him and get a haul for him before other GMs realise that he's got lower upside than a lot of people thought, despite seemingly putting up reasonably good-looking numbers. I don't think he's a "winning player".
Then should be complaining about Berube spending those years making him work on his weakness ( defense and 2 way play) instead of letting him work on and improving his strengths ( offense ).