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Originally Posted by Locke
Absolutely this.
Its like his slow start to the season is getting written off.
Elliott was either lights out amazing or just terrifyingly bad. Way too big of a swing for a starter.
You have to be reasonably good all the time and occasionally amazing.
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No one is writing it off... but one has to admit that there were potentially reasons for the slow start:
1) New Team
2) New Head Coach
3) New System
4) New DMan Pairing
5) New Everything outside of the rink
In all fairness to Elliott everyone on the team looked bad...
So, he did look bad, but that bad was understood by most with an asterisk as a result of all of the above...
The playoff performance is definitely concerning however, and he definitely deserves criticism for how bad he looked... the coaching staff were also to blame for this lack of preparedness.