I hope you're right. This team is winning in spite of 52's play right now. He should be the one carrying the game and covering for his rookie D partners, not the other way around.
He will turn it around. Just going thru a tough stretch of 15 games....15 games.
He is not Chris Pronger, Shea Weber or Zdeno Chara. He is a top flight generational offensive dman. That is what he is.
We could easily say Ovechkin went thru a tough stretch of 115 games where he looked disinterested. We could also say "hey Alex is making $9 million so we need him to play D as good as he plays O!" We'd be wrong and asking too much of him then. Its not his prime directive.
Why would any of us hate Green and want him to fail? In my opinion he's crucial to this team ever having a Cup run. I defend our players to a fault, and I did so with Green, but he's becoming indefensible. How many times this year have you watched him and said, "just what the **** is he doing?" I've probably said it 10 times this season, but he looks hammered drunk out there. Just brutal. If he's not scoring he's a liability, and he's not scoring.
Again..its 15 games. Malkin has been bad for the Pens. Would you suggest they bench him or would be better off jettisoning him?
Ofcourse you wouldn't. You just have to realize that players are human and will have down periods. You stick with them especially if they are unique talents like #52.
Patience
Liberation's problem is that he's "socially" Pejorative Slured and lacks confidence.
Fixed for you. I'm just as qualified to make those observations about you as you are to Green.
ALL players go thru stretches where they are confident and when they are not.
I don't even want to know what you really mean by being "socially" Pejorative Slured. Thats just a stupid thing to say but coming from you its not shocking.
By all accounts Mike Green is a good guy.