This is spot on. We obviously aren't perfect defensively, but we should be potting 3 or 4 goals a game pretty regularly, which make a game like this with shaky defense a lot more competitive and winnable. They are the sole reason we haven't looked good offensively nor on the PP. Zibanejad was the sole reason we probably weren't a playoff team last season with how much he dragged the team down the first 30 games or whatever it was, so we are used to it from him now. But Panarin? It's tough to take seeing him play like this. Real tough.
I think people are so accustomed to see Panarin putting up 2-3 points a game the last 2years and expect that from him. He’s obviously not as bad as he’s playing now, but we can’t expect 120-125 pt pace every year either... it’s somewhere in the middle I expect his norm to be.
As panarin goes, so goes strome....
Zibby is a horse of a different color. It’s stretches like this to start the year, and last season with covid/new diet etc which made me Leary of a 7-8 year deal.
They have to be fewer and farther between for him to earn that deal...
Gets done is don’t at this point. Just have to hope both guys snap out of it. Whether it’s a condition thing or both being sloppy and unfocused