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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
One is producing offensively and the other isn't.
Wideman's far from perfect in his own end, although I would argue much better than Giordano has been, but as long as the offensive defenseman is putting up points he'll get a pass. He's in the top 10 in scoring for defensemen in the league and is third on the Flames. The lustre will come off once his scoring dries up but until then we'll turn a blind eye to his defensive gaffes if he's QBing a decent PP.
What is Giordano now? He's not good defensively, he's definitely not good offensively, he's not hitting and he's not playing sound positionally. If Giordano had triple the points or was playing a decent shutdown role we wouldn't be so harsh on him. Until he plays like he did a year ago, he deserves the criticism.
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I think Giordano definitely deserves criticism not saying that. Just seems like Wideman gets a pass for his garbage play because he puts up some points but playing like crap overall.