To me, Gio looks like he's still plagued by the injury that kept him out last year. If he is, I don't know why he's still playing, he's clearly not playing well.
I do think he should be demoted to the bottom pairing and if he doesn't play better with limited ice time then scratch him for a game or two. It's not like we need him on the ice to get every point to fight for a playoff birth here....
As for the question about a captain being a healthy scratch, wasn't Brown a scratch last year for the kings at one point?
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