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Originally Posted by pylon
Or other teams have just figured him out. I can sit and watch the game now and predict accurately every single time they try that drop back, let Johnny carry it in from his own blue line play they do every power play he's on the ice. It's ridiculously predictable, and once it's predictable, it's easy to shut down. He's super creative around the net and in the slot, but there is only so many ways he can get in that deep. And it seems like teams are just flushing him to the outside and smothering him before he gets in too deep. He's not ever gonna power his way through so the options he has are limited.
If may be as simple as the book is out on him now, and the jig is up.
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Except that he still scored at nearly a point a game pace this season despite the slow start and injury.
He's always going to struggle because of his size, but to suggest "the jig is up" when he put up 61 points in 72 games is completely overstated.