Well they aren't playing him sheltered minutes or solely on the PP so they can't be that terrified by his defense and rarely are defenseman traded for a 1st round pick solely for their offense, especially when that offense isn't even top 20 for defensemen in the league.
I think people criticized him because they wanted a scapegoat and he was an easy target. I can tell you this a lot of that criticism was for his offense so hard to see why Blues would want him solely for that.
I didn't say he was full value for his deal or super awesome just that he was the best defenseman on a team with mostly bad defensemen. He was far from the main (or even big) problem this team has had the last 3.5 years.
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