With a goal just now,
Seth Jones now has more goals (10) than Joey (9).
And? People fail to understand that Jones was wasted on this team and still would be wasted on this team. We have 4 Dmen that are just as good, but what we didn't have was a top center. Whether it was Jones or one of the other 4, we would be in the same place.
We've had this talk on the Preds boards, lots of people call it lazy, I call it a lack of motivation. Would I love him to play hard every game like Arvy? Sure, has it mattered? Not really.
You don't win the Cup in November and December, and I think for him that is where the problem lies. Add that on top of a pretty rough injury and it happens.
Having players with a ton of trade value is great, but trade value doesn't win you a Cup. We make that trade every day and twice on Sunday again, and I doubt Poile would say any different.
At least he knows he hasn't been shooting enough and has started trying to change that, and his game as of late has shown that.