[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

That's a complete load of BS .

The Bouwmeester-Giordano pair was outscored 41-49 in their time together. That's on a team that had Kipper in net and Iginla up front.

The Giordano - Wideman pair was outscored 31-28 in their time together. And that includes Wideman's career year where everything he threw on net turned into goals.

The Giordano - Engelland pair was outscored 18-13 in their time together.

Despite all this, in 2013-14 when our top forwards were guys like Matt Stajan, half a season of Cammalleri, Lee Stempniak, and Mikael Backlund, the Gio - Brodie pair outscored their opponents 37 - 30. That's before Gaudreau, before Monahan, before Tkachuk, before Lindholm. That's with a guys like Reto Berra and a 22 year old Joni Ortio in net for us. But according to your logic that was 100% Giordano. It's B.S.

So far this season the Giordano - Andersson pair has played together for a few games against non playoff teams with putrid top lines. How about we toss Andersson out there against the Avs' top line, or the Blues' top line of Schenn-Rielly-Tarassenko, before jumping to conclusions

Giordano was a late bloomer. He's been better in his last 5-6 years than earlier in his career. He wasn't the elite player he is now back when he played with Bouwmeester.