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Originally Posted by LTH
Why does everyone automatically go to Johnny and give him all the blame?
Hes not a #1 overall pick, hes not McKinnon, or ,McDavid, or Matthew's.
It's easy to stop the first line.
..focus on JG because the other two ain't doin Jack ####.
Bennett has more ability to create and drive the play than Mony. Mony can finish.
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I don't think people automatically go to blame Johnny. But he is our best offensive player and he does have that in common with McDavid, Matthew and MacKinnon who are the best offensive players on their teams. People expect great things out of Gaudreau because he's a great player. There's nothing wrong with those expectations.
The harsh reality is he's been bad the past few games, surely even the biggest Gaudreau fans can see that? In the most important part of the season his game has been worse. He's bailing out on pucks.
He does still have time to turn it around. People are just very discouraged by what they've seen out of Johnny in the most important games of the entire season so far. His game has regressed instead of elevating. You need the opposite out of some or most of your core players.
Again he still has time to turn it around. But tonight's game is huge for the Flames and huge for Gaudreau as well. If the Flames bow out tonight and Gaudreau wasn't anywhere near the top of his game there's naturally going to be a lot of questions asked about it. And we will quickly turn to those question if it happens. But if he turns it around, looks like a star and we come back to win the series or even make it close all will be forgiven. That is the harsh nature of sports and entertainment.
It's a huge game for the Flames young core facing elimination for the first time this year. It's going to be very interesting and very telling who steps up and shows another level of determination, effort, grit, speed and tenacity. Make no mistake the Flames management, coaches, scouts and fans will be judging players based on how they perform in this, the most crucial game of the season so far. That's the nature of sports. You are judged on performance. Johnny's grade for the series is incomplete but so far he's been found lacking. I haven't seen enough determination, grit and tenacity out of Gaudreau on some shifts. We're all hoping he steps it up tonight and we can put these questions to bed.