He's really not, in order to be able to poke the puck away you need to have actual fast twitch reflexes and good hand eye both of which Girard lacks. Here's a clip of him looking at the guy making a cross ice pass but can't even track the puck with nobody around him. Hits him in the feet, if he had good reflexes and hand eye he'd be able to pick it out easily like Mackinnon or Makar would but nope not even close. Puck gets away from him and he allows the player to go right by him for a premiere scoring chance.
Here's a clip of Girard allowing another easy zone entry cause he tries to pick off the pass but it goes right by him, then he tries to poke check but not even close with that midget stick (why does he even play with it? it's not like he ever dangles anybody all he does is skate wide) and gives up a great wrap around opportunity. Then the puck fortuitously bounces right to the front of his stick and he still couldn't pick it up and allows the opposition to straight grab it and maintain possession for their team in the offensive zone.
He really didn't, it was well known that it wasn't Sakic making those moves and Roy was the one pushing for those bad trades for vets that were good when he was in still in the league in order to win now. You guys all wanted to trade Duchene and even Landeskog for some utter garbage packages like Ryan Murray and a 1st or Brandon Carlo (Gotta get the Colorado kid!). Without Sakic you wouldn't have ever gotten your precious Girard in the first place.
I thought those takes were silly though, and I doubt it cause Mackinnon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>your precious Girard (I don't even feel the teams lacks anything when he's out of the lineup unlike Mack, Timmins does a much better job of providing offense from blue line better than whatever the f*** Girard does there) and Rantanen too although reading the comments here some people actually think Girard is more valuable and important to the team than him
. Truly mind boggling.
