It may be a good point. It's just hard to find the point among the extreme language.
I haven't looked at Pouliot's oZone starts throughout the season. He's at about 60% now. Does that mean he's getting 50/50 now?
It’s hard to find to understand what pillow soft minutes are? My lord dude you can’t possibly be serious.
Again Patrick Wiercioch has a season two years ago where he had one of the fullest HERO charts in the NHL where he played in a similar offensive situation to Pouliot is now. You don’t seem to grasp all these borederline skills defenders are all capable of doing what Pouliot has in easy minutes and they all have track records of doing it.
In the same offensive zone starts and deployment as Pouliot had this year Patrick Wiercioch had the best CFRel% on a team that had the best defender of this generation. His CFRel% was also much better than Pouliot’s this year.
Adam Clendening when he was on the team had the 3rd best CF Rel% on the Canucks defensive core behind Edler and Tanev who had the best season of their careers.
These are the type of players Pouliot compares to, he was a guy that looked really good with 70 offensive zone starts which is a situation where pretty much any replacement level skill guy would look good then when he started to become a strength on strength player he was one of the worst players in the NHL in a ~20 game stretch he had something like 2 points and was ~-20.
There’s zero excuses for a guy to be playing in the easiest deployment among defenders on a team who is still bleeding goals against, that’s a sign that a defender isn’t really good at defending.