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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Gio is making some good plays throughout games. Flashes, if you will, of last year's Gio.
The problem is that he's playing huge stretches of this unknown Gio where he seems to be reading plays slow, or outright wrongly. Carrying pucks when he should be passing and vice-versa. Simply not the on-ice spark he provided so many times last year through his brilliant play.
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Not a bad analysis IMO. I feel this sort of outlines why outright benching might actually do him more good than just cutting his icetime.
He doesn't need minor adjustments and his problems are not in effort. He looks like he needs to snap out of something. A benching sometimes helps in that.