This “blame Draisaitl” narrative is absolutely BS. No one is wrongly blaming Drai or running him out of town. Most posters calling him out are big fans of Drai and his game.
But when you’ve been bad all of preseason and then to start the reg season, you deserve criticism. He is getting paid to be a driver on this team, he’s supposed to carry the play and be a threat every time Connor isn’t on the ice.
Idgaf if he got a goal and an assist. His assist was garbage and his goal doesn’t excuse his play. He was soft on the coverage which lead to the first goal. He had multiple turnovers, he wasn’t moving his feet.
I don’t doubt that Drai will bounce back but he needs to do it soon and so far, he has not shown much. We need him to turn it around and start being one of the best players every game (from both teams) to have a chance at anything.
The narrative isn't BS. Other posters have noticed this as well.
If Draisaitl plays a bad game, or makes a bad play, people absolutely have the right to criticize him, I agree.
There are two things I object to. First, it's attacking the PERSON rather than the player or even the play. It's one thing to say "Draisaitl made a bad play there" or "Draisaitl is having a rough game" and yet it's another thing to make these completely asinine comments about him sniffing clovers or looking for girls in the crowd or calling him a douchebag.
Second is that if people are going to run him down for the turnovers, those same people should praise him when he does something good. The usual suspects were in full force today but disappeared from the GDT when he scored that goal. That strikes me as a hater, correct me if you feel differently.
Anyways, it would be nice for all of us if the Oilers won the next goal and Draisaitl got 10 points and was perfect in the D-zone so we'd all live in harmony.