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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
What a win. Johnny is definitely back.
Is it too soon to talk about Gio? I love him, but maaaaaan. His decisions are just a second too late and that pairing (specifically that side) are getting absolutely shellacked this year. The jets were dumping it in his corner all night. By virtually every metric the team's performance when he's on the ice is the worst of all defensemen this year. I hope it's just a phase that he needs to work through.
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The lack of a training camp certainly factors in here.
He always was one of the fittest guys coming into camp. Obviously this was a much different offseason so who knows if he had his full training routine and how that played out for fitness testing this year.
But that combined with no ability to shake off game rust. He's battling through it.
And he's used to Brodie as a full time guy so now with Andersson, who certainly plays a lot different style and positionally than Brodie, so it's and adjustment. In the past, he knew where Brodie would be, now, Andersson isn't in the same positioning so it means Gio has to make up the space difference (ie skate more).
If he can hold the fort down these next two weeks I think he'll be just fine.