We spent the entire off season here hammering Brooks Orpik for being over the hill and a waste of space. Now after it appears his troubles were more injury that lack of ability to play the game and he has been good, we are now focused on the other guy on the team that plays that similar way.
In this case its not bad penalties or being too slow that is the reason for the suckatude, its lack of scoring or trying to score and that his market value for a new contract might be too much. "He's not that good".
Tedious. That is a good word for it.
Edit: I am still kind of confused by the...whatever the word is....That a pending UFA defenseman that is generally thought to be able to get fairly easily a high dollar, long term contract is also judged to be not that good. This means those that form the consensus don't have a clue which doesn't make any sense.