MaxR11
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It's no coincidence that our best LINE is the one that always has Draisaitl on it
I love Connor, he is a great player, best in the works. But he does need to evolve his game to help drive the play. He fixes his defensive issues guy could increase his point totals like Drai has
Somewhere along the way connor let his overall game slide. I think he was actually decent in his first 2 years overall. I feel like in his third season he started to chase points and cheat more and conserve energy for points and it was a bad habit that appears to be hard to shake.
Ya, i mean it could very well be the injury plays a significant part but he does seem to be deferring a lot of the hard work to his linemates. I think he's just in a rut now and getting into bad habits that he needs to expunge from his game as quick as possible.
There's no question, if players stick with it and have patience and effort and grind, that playing strong defence as a five man unit will help quicken their pace and get everyone coordinated more and move up the ice together and create offence from strong defence. This is not a novel concept but it's hard work and requires patience and stick-to-it-ness.
We've seen Connor's line at times (without drai) play well and that's always when connor decides to play hard with pace and tighter as a five man unit instead of floating and cheating up ice, and away from the other 4. Everyone gets separated a bit more when this happens and their pace slows as they're looking for longer stretch passes.