jetkarma*
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He is taken maintenance days often and something was said on the broadcast today about it.
He has some bad games like every other player but his good games far outweigh his bad ones. IMHO (have to add that in) I really don't understand the criticism he gets a lot of times other than the bad penalties which he hasn't done in a while.
Little joked that he had practiced more than Ladd , a good natured dig.
He hasn't scored which is part of it , and he has not gotten the puck out of the d zone a fair bit recently ( although that is certainly a challenge for him overall ). No one is perfect in all areas of course but he has had some poor games for his expected level of play recently.
Things is , how hurt is he? We don't know but it is very probable , so he get's the benefit of that . He's been physical still which is a plus of course. Hopefully him and Little put the puck in the net starting with the next game , with the scoring we're getting from the bottom 6 , that would be a huge , huge plus.