Outside of 15 games this season (he was fine through the entirety of last season imo) Giordano has been an exceptional d-man. He's stepped up for the team in the past when it has struggled, and scored some big goals, not to mention made outstanding plays defensively on a regular basis. Enough that outsiders around the league have really noticed the guy. This guy was being discussed as being the future inheritor of the C for the team last year.. that doesn't come without merit.
You don't just throw in the towel on a player who's been that for you through the majority of his career because of a poor start through 15 games. The fact that some people seem to be pretty content with Jbo these days, some even suggesting that we keep him now, after 3 poor seasons prior to this just shows you how much it's all about "what have you done for me lately?", Seems people have really short term memories. Maybe it's the nature of the shortened season, but it's not likely anyone is expecting us to really make a run for the playoffs at this point, (if we do-great), but how about we stop panicking and jumping the gun, and let him play his full (half) season then we'll see where we're at.
I'm still a Gio fan. He's underperformed but I have seen enough of his tremendous play and ability myself over several years to know without question what this guy is capable of, so I have no worries that he'll get back to that, which was a norm for him before. If anything this is an anomaly for him, not like he had a one and done season.
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