Sidney the Kidney
One last time
- Jun 29, 2009
- 55,820
- 46,990
He's no longer an effective PPQB, that's the biggest reason why his point totals fell. Look at the years he put up 30-40 points, he consistently had half of those points on the powerplay. Johnson over his entire career has been a really bad ES point producer, his best ES season was 23 points in 2009-2010. He has been below 20 ES points in all but 3 seasons in the NHL.
But that's still my point about how diminished his puck skills have become. At one time, he must have been above average with the puck on his stick to be effective even on the PP. I mean, even if you gave Rob Scuderi top PP unit minutes he'd still not get more than about 20 points because of how limited he is. That's the level of puck skills Johnson is displaying this season, and that's the part that took me by surprise.