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Are you blaming him for the goal where the official blocked his pass and Kane shot it in (off Henrique?)after Fowler was picked, the Foegele goal where he dropped his stick when he realized it was broken, still prevented the first shot, then none of the other 3 guys covered the free guy on the other side of the net who took the shot, the Hyman goal where he was exactly where he should have been and Drysdale was the one who allowed the breakaway, or the final Kulak goal where Gibson just didn’t bother to show up?Right now no pairing works with fowler really….
Call it whatever you want… over used, wrong line up placement but outside of all of that he’s been pretty bad on his own.
There is also very minimal reasons to keep him past this year, don’t even think the won’t get good trade value arguement works much anymore
This isn’t “being an apologist”, this is what actually happened on every goal. You can argue that he should have fought through the pick (wouldn’t happen with no momentum for anyone), should have realized his stick was broken earlier (irrelevant at that distance from the bench), zero culpability on the 3rd one, and could have asked him to try to get out to block the shot (likely screening Gibson in the process, but might have blocked it). One of those is a reasonable argument against his play IMO, and it came already down 6-1.