I still had issues with Gio.
Not that he was necessarily a liability - the bad plays he would make up for by skating back and breaking plays up - but he still wasn't moving the puck forward quickly either. Looking for the safest plays across the ice still because he doesn't have that confidence to make a crisp pass up to the forwards.
Having 14/15 Gio back would go a long ways in turning things around. He's gone from abysmal to a competent d-man but he's not in elite form yet.
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