If you want to make a point about RNH, be my guest. Drai is certainly not the only guy that coasts to the bench. It's "a thing" with our team and it has never been acceptable on any team I ever played on, so it's odd to notice it so obviously at the NHL level.
Leon destroying team culture? Nobody has said that. This team hasn't had any team culture, save for a brief period in 2017, since 2006. What's to destroy?
I'm just waiting for true leadership... the type that propagates positively with teammates... to re-establish itself. Drai is an intelligent player who cares... he could easily be that guy, but that was not a "Patrice Bergeron" type of play.
I agree that the casual skates to the bench issue is a team thing, its been addressed, several times. For Drai, and McD, as much as any players its due to being gassed half the time and at the end of shifts. Theres several players on this team that don't even work up a sweat.
Bergeron? Bruins?
Lets be a little fair here. Bergeron is 33, playing on a SC calibre team and with D like Chara and a supporting cast of players playing the right way that have his back.
Drai is 23, playing on a lol team where anytime he makes a mistake half the time the D are out of position behind him, the goaltending suspect, and the red light flashing.
Drai is a good possession player that advances puck well, is key on this team in transition (we lack any pmd) and has so many critical roles on this club. Now even being its top goal scorer when he's not winning faceoffs, setting up 10 chances a night, playing PP, pk, too many minutes etc.
But my lord, a 23yr old German hockey player isn't Pavel Datsyuk yet. Lets stop the presses and scratch him (as some are suggesting in this thread) until he gets it right..(sarcasm)
ps destroying team culture. That was your segue comment, in your post, in context after a paragraph in which you critiqued draisaitl. You're a good writer, nor was that arrangement in your post accidental. You made the inference, clearly.