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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Mony-Gaudreau are just the tempting whipping boys as we were already getting ready to trade one of them since last season seemingly and they aren't producing 1.5 ppg.
The bigger problems on this team right now:
- Backlund has been better the last 3 games, but before that was having one of his worst defensive seasons ever. That has been pretty crippling.
- Our defense is actually quite bad. Rasmus has not taken the step we all hoped, Valimaki isn't quite ready for big time and will likely never be as gaudy as he looked in Finland, and while Hanifin is solid defensively and looks better offensively he has virtually no production to show for it. Meanwhile Gio is very obviously aging into oblivion.
- Markstrom has been wildly inconsistent since injury. Probably needs to be forcibly shut down for another week to heal and get the head back on straight.
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The defence just looks very inexperienced overall. Every game one at least one of the young guys seems to make some blatantly rookie mistake. Giordano seems to not be dealing with his decline well mentally. He looks like he is getting frustrated and then makes his own major mistakes.
I can't imagine how bad things would be without Tanev.