You mean the 11 mil per year power play specialist? The one that will try to backhand pass through 4 sticks and fail? Refuses to shoot when he's open in the slot.
He got paid and stopped back checking. He's dictating his linemates which is blocking ice time from the kids who need it for development. That's how we end up Dryden Hunt, Blackwell, Etc
Imagine if we took that 11 mil and had a real 1 LD. Or a Player that wasn't allergic to the middle of the ice.
His contract is costing us depth through the lineup for a 1 dimensional pp specialist who got completely nullified in the playoffs.
Calling him a "PP Specialist" just makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about. Wayne Simmonds was a PP specialist. David Perron is sort of a PP specialist. A player who has scored over 2 pts/60 every single year of his career is not in any way a PP specialist.
If you have complaints that is perfectly fine but making blatant false statements is not. He doesn't go to the middle of the ice. He doesn't shoot as much as he could. He does make a lot of risky passes that turn into overs. He's still an elite 5v5 scorer and has been his whole career.
2020-2021: 6th best pts/60 at 5v5 1000+mins
2021-2022: 27th best pts/60 at 5v5 1000+mins
2022-2023: 54th best pts/60 at 5v5 300+ mins (Yes it's lower. It's also only 25 games. That a higher number than Point,Matthews,Rantanen,Kaprizov,Tavares,Connor,Ovechkin,Meier etc.)
The problem with his 5v5 results this year is very simple. 7.58 sh%. He's been over 10% 4 years in a row. 89.5 sv% which is like he's playing with Joonas Korpisalo as his goalie every game. I don't think Igor Shesterkin is Joonas Korpisalo. But this is hf, and hockey, and we can't accept that not everything has an explanation and that variance is a real thing so we have to go around and find a story for everything. Oh his high danger chances are low and such. Ok, so what? They've been low his entire career. It's not his playstyle.