He put up some legitimately elite individual expected goals totals earlier in the season and looked great doing it. He was a big part of the best line in the league for 3/4 of the season.
During the most recent stretch, both his statistical and eyetest game has been really ugly to watch. No pace, soft on the puck, giveaways all over the ice, struggles to get even one clean shot off a game. Take him out if he's injured, for all our sakes.
If he's not injured, I don't see why considering trading him for an equivalent centre who can drive his own line and contribute in other ways when the offense is going cold is so blasphemous. I still think ideally we keep him and he gets through this and back to his earlier level of play.
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