His 30 pts in 150 games? Gotta see more than that. I don't really care about his situations, I view them as excuses for why he hasn't produced.
Then you've got an unreasonable position.
There's only so much offense you're going to get from a defenseman who plays most of his time with players who either don't have skills, or who are being told to cut out the skill and dump it in.
You know when Kindl's game got better?
Look it up.
When he started playing with Eaves-Andersson-Tatar.
It gave him some skill to work with.
You know why Kindl looked good in the playoffs?
Because in the playoffs he played with a Nyquist-Andersson-Brunner line that could move the puck.
Call it excuses if you want. But Kindl is a puck possession guy.
And when he plays with non-puckpossession players, it doesn't ****ing work.
It's like all the *****ing about Smith. If you ask him to play defensive, "stupid hockey," as Brett Hull would call Babcock's hockey, he's going to struggle.
We've got a GM who likes puckmovers.
We've got a coach who likes dump and chase hockey (and then pretends he doesn't).