Nikishin Go Boom
Russian Bulldozer Consultent
- Jul 31, 2017
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Gardiner was brought in to be a puck moving offensive defenseman whose offensive numbers would offset any struggles he would have defensively. The first half of the season, he was a complete disaster, but his game is coming around now. You're never going to get him to be defensively sound with his game, that's just not who he is. If you're expecting that to be a part of his game, you're gonna be in for a bad time.
I get it but we cant afford to put one guy back out our blue line in case he does something crazy either. His offensive game has come around but his d game or game inside our O zone is bad. If he could just be a guy that gets us out of the D zone with those amazing stretch passes, he would be fantastic. Sub him out immediately after that, like OT with Staal.