Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
- Sep 6, 2006
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His plus minus is getting worse, he had the worse plus minute on the entire team last season while three of his teammates were high plus players. Now of course that must be the fault of his d partners, and his ice time is getting less as Slbinhas passed him. Now people won't like the +/- but it is a stat, and when others have +23 and he is -19, it speaks volumes . He will never get you Pasta and the Bruins already have dmen better than him, not required.
Like I said, the more you post, the worse you look. Let's go 1 by 1.
1) "He's regressing badly": He's only been in the league 2 years and was better in his 2nd year than 1st.
2) "No way he gets you Pasta": That may be true, but you failed to recognize that a Bruins fan started this thread, not a Canes fan.
3) "He will continue to decline": Again, failing to recognize that he's only 20, only been in the NHL 2 years and improved from year to year. don't think you know what "decline" means.
4) "He has an extremely low hockey IQ": When asked what he can improve on, you go ahead and pick something that is not measurable. I could easily pick out some tangible things that he needs to improve on (as any player could), yet you failed to do so which indicates to me you either haven't watched him much, or weren't able to identify those.
5) "When he came into the league he showed great promise": Um, actually he didn't. He actually looked like he wasn't ready for the NHL when he came into the league, which isn't a surprise given he had 1 real year of higher level competitive hockey before jumping to the NHL (a year in which he was one of the younger NCAA players I believe). Anybody who expected him to be a top 4 D from day 1 was either blind or incredibly naive.
6) "Werenski with the jackets for example, he is solid no matter who he is with" Love this one, as I pointed out, Werenski played almost exclusively with Jones. So you seem to have just pulled that one out of thin air.
7) "His ice time is getting less as Slavin has passed him."
2015/16 ES TOI/GP: 15:26; Total TOI/GP: 17:54
2016/17 ES TOI/GP: 15:51; Total TOI/GP: 17:55
What is this "ice time getting less' you speak of?
And the Pièce de résistance?
8) "His plus minus is getting worse"