At least Tlusty plays defense. Nothing was more rage inducing than watching Ryder coast through the neutral zone instead of backchecking and purposefully avoiding getting/giving the body
While I don't disagree, the guy was brought in to play offense. We have enough players who can do that, almost every forward we have can do that, other than Tootoo. Even if they don't do it as well as Tlusty. I would also argue that Ruutu can't do it anymore either. He sucks at every facet of the game, he's as bad as last year's (and the current) Zubrus.
Tlusty was signed to contribute offensively, and right now he's on pace for fewer points than almost all of the 4th liners (that play on the 3rd line) I constantly complain about. He does have more points than Matteau and Gionta though.
I don't regret the signing, because I don't think anyone could have predicted him to be this bad. The signing was worth it at under a million and just a year. But he's been the biggest disappointment on the year.
I would say he's easily been the biggest disappointment, or Matteau. Though I did expect more offense out of the bottom 6/3rd line than what we're getting. Even if we were a lottery team, I never thought we'd only have just 2 goals in 41 games from the ''3rd line''.