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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Another poster doing mental gymnastics trying to blame anybody but Gaudreau for Gaudreau’s crap play.
Gaudreau isn’t making smart plays with puck
Gaudreau isn’t hard on the puck
Gaudreau isn’t winning any battles
Gaudreau doesn’t look dangerous either shooting or passing
But let’s just ignore all that and make it about Bednar and Peters and then we won’t have to face the sad reality that our star player is at the heart of the problem.
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Gaudreau isn't playing with any kind of pace right now. He was most dangerous on zone entries forcing d-men to back off because he was flying in and was hard to read. Now it's just a lazy/scared zone entry, curl around look for a pass then get smothered by the other team until he runs out of options and turns it over.
It has to be a confidence thing. What's troubling though is that instead of working hard to fight through the skid, his effort looks pathetic at times.