Its very clear he is snakebitten, has the yips, something is going on with him. He doesnt look like a credible bottom six player at all right now. And is constantly flubbing the puck, making piss poor decisions, deferring to the point of absurdity. I mean, look at this (from an article on SB nation)
100%. He's just the worst deadline pickup I can remember the Penguins getting since Brassard. Except Brassard actually made sense and was bust, since he was at the time one of the best depth Cs out there, and just fell off a cliff after the trade. Granlund never really made sense for that role, at that cap number, any of it.
When I think about the fact that Hextall cleared McGinn and Kapanen for basically nothing, and then turned around and wasted ALL of the cap space on this dud for 2 more years, its maddening. It was high risk, low reward all the way. A 2nd rounder, no retention, for a vanilla player who is the opposite of what the pens needed (not a finisher, not a physical player, kind of useless w bottom six minutes, a playmaker for lines where there are zero finishers, about as vanilla as it gets). Hextall already needed to go, but that was the final nail in his coffin. In fact, getting Hextall fired might be Granlund's best contribution to the Pens.
I know its just fans talking and not the actual real world, but when I think that Vancouver fans on here were okay with a 2nd rounder+ for Brock Boeser who was younger, better, and signed for the same amount of time at about a million more, I get even angrier.
He is on the second unit. Which is usually him, Carter, Zucker, Rust, Petry. And Carter and Rust have both been varying levels of putrid, so not much help there.
