It absolutely is true. He looks slow and weak. That could be due to confidence and injury as well, but he has looked really bad this season. It seems like you forgot how I am a huge KK fan too.
It seems like you forgot how he looked for the first few games. It sounds like recency bias for sure. He's looked like crap for the last 8 games, so he's looked like crap all year. I can agree that he's looked lost ever since the Lighting game, but before that he looked good, he was driving the play and he had two goals and an assist in 6 games, not exactly gamebreaking production but decent enough.
He was better but still not that good. Drouin and Armia helped him out tremendously. When Suzuki struggled in the top 6 he got demoted to the 4th line and was excellent until he got his spot back in the top 6. KK has not done that whatsoever and if you think otherwise, then it just confirms that you aren't watching the games.
Suzuki was excellent on the fourth line ? You might be pushing it.
I have to agree he’s been a far cry from what we saw last year. We used to say the puck stuck to his stick, and he kept getting better. Other way around this year. Kk’s got time on his side, not worried though.
Suzuki felt his way for the first few games but was really good allowing for balanced 4-line scoring, Thompson hasn’t been nearly as noticeable offensively since Suzuki was moved up the lineup.
Its true, he's been better and better, nobody is saying otherwise, the problem is acting like Suzuki was somehow better than Kotkaniemi for their first five or six games, he was not. He registered a single pass in his first seven games.
How are you so sure ? Will he bounce back as high as he could ? This determinism is tiring. Extrinsic factors are an important part of development, not every player can be PK Subban and rise up from the constant beating of Therrien to stardom. Some can't and some won't.
Right, I forgot... management can do no wrong.
Coaches have favourites. That's unfortunately the way it works with some of these guys.
Ya of course, he loved Suzuki so much that he played him with Peca and Hudon in camp. Meanwhile he hates KK. It's never the players fault that he isn't good enough. Suzuki has been much better than KK this season, not even close. Suzuki also had his fair share of garbage linemates but the difference is that he did very well while KK struggled. There is no hidden conspiracy going on.
I was going to say the same thing to you since he worked his way up the lineup from garbage players while KK hasn't
After he was excellent in preseason. He was then sent to the 4th line and worked his way back up by actually being good.
