Hawkaholic
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I suppose it depends on your definition of "liability" but Shaw absolutely 100% has always been a liability by my definition. He's effective and useful but even aside from the idiotic cheap shots he is extremely prone to taking dumb, unnecessary penalties at terrible times. How many offensive zone penalties did we see over the years? You take the good and the bad with Shaw. Always have, always will. He's off to a particularly dumb start for Montreal but he's also scored a goal or two, so, see how the rest of the season goes for him.
Yeah, I assumed he meant liability as in you can't trust him defensively on the ice or to do his job as a forward, wasn't thinking liability as in taking dumb penalties. But a lot of times Shaw draws more penalties than he takes as well.
Yeah, he's off to a dumb start, but I highly doubt he keeps playing like that. He will reign it in and quit with the cheap shots. He went almsot his whole career here without too many cheap shots.