I've heard the rumours too from multiple legit sources actually, but I do struggle with the relevancy. Lots of young people go and party and show up bright eyed and bushy tailed the next day. It doesn't correlate to me that his poor play is a result of alleged issues with partying. I think we should assume that NHL players will party (and probably should to be honest, because it can be a good team builder actually). If the Flames party, other NHL teams party too. You'd expect that to impact those teams too.
However what I do see if a very frustrated guy who seems like all the fame, cash and success he has had here appears to have gone to his head. I say this based on body language if things don't go his way, and the fact that he simply refuses to use his teammates.
If Johnny just started passing more, he'd revert back to normal pretty quickly. However he has decided that he needs to stickhandle through 5 guys and that doesn't work in community hockey when you're 7 let alone the NHL.
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