He scores 2 goals vs the worst team in the league so you think anyone criticizing him is a loser? That's rich.
He's going to want $7m AAV... for a C who has 19 assists. Centers aren't supposed to have more goals than assists. He's great overall in the faceoff dot, but we can find a 3C faceoff specialist to replace Dickenson and play on the pk. He generates most of his offense off of turnovers in tight and pots goals off the rush as well, but he is consistently getting burnt on the wrong side of the puck. He's not a puck distributor by any stretch and doesn't make his line-mates better. People like to laud his supposed defensive instincts, but he's average to below average away form the puck and is part of our PK problem. He'll have a good game like this every once in a while and the fans go overboard with the captain stuff.
He is what he is at this point, he's not turning into Ryan Kesler. A more apt comparison might be a prime Brandon Sutter due to his tendency to be a shoot first C with low assist totals.