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Originally Posted by DomeFoam
AKA teams you must go through to go far in the playoffs. I'm okay trading Gaudreau because his game just does not translate to playoff hockey. Which is the whole point of cheering for a team, in hopes of one day wearing the crown.
I think people are really against trading him because the team will be heavily devoid of skill in the long regular seasons to come, but I think we need to accept the short term pain of losing him to restart and try again with the high end assets we'd get back before his value starts to diminish.
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I’m not sure I buy this...
To my eye it has been a lack of finishing that has plagued Johnny in the playoffs.
When we faced, pretty sure it was, Colorado he was generating offence and even had some breakaways and a penalty shot and couldn’t bury them. If your game doesn’t translate you aren’t even generating chances.
Johnny was in his funk where he was snake bitten on breakaways, mostly because he only tried to deke and tuck it fivehole. He seems to be shooting more and even scored a snipe on Montreal on a breakaway not too long ago.
This made up storyline that Johnny can’t succeed in the playoffs cause he is too small is just that, made up.
You don’t generate offence if you don’t have it in you so if you want to ridicule him it was lack of finish but don’t pretend like he is completely invisible out there and can’t do anything creatively when the playoffs start.