That's right you don't understand. You know who does? Brett Hull who didn't start competing until Hitchcock got his hands on him. His goals and points went down but he became a much better player to his team in the name of winning than he was as an 86 goal scorer. You know who else understands? Steve Yzerman when Scotty Bouwman got his hands on him and flat out told Yzerman how he has to change if he wants to win. The result was a player who became one of the all time great complete hockey players.
Now ask yourself this. Why can't JVR change? Why can't he compete, forcheck, win puck battles for his team mates? He's not good enough to get by with just skill while his line mates do all the work to get him goals. That's not winning hockey.
Your right goals are important but the HOW they get those goals is even more important. JVR is a dog period.
Jeez I didn't know I hit such a nerve.
I never said he wasn't bad defensively and I never alluded that it wasn't important. What I said was that goals are important and he's doing that no matter what you think of his complete game. And to say that his teammates do all the work and he scores the goals is absolutely 100% wrong and you're just making stuff up at this point.
You bring up Yzerman but I can bring up someone like Ovechkin. Plenty of players that are top end scorers, even hall of famers and cup winners, despite not being studs defensively.
JVR has been this kind of player for a long time, for better or worst. His consistency and numbers speak for themselves. All this started by ACC saying he wishes to have JVR traded despite his career year start, which is absurd. If you want to complain about players and wishing some of them traded, the list starts much after JVR.