Gio is a notorious slow starter. He's usually horrible in the first month or two of any season and gets better deeper into the season. It's why he was terrible in the bubble without a month to get going and terrible this season until later although as said above you can probably thank Tanev for some of the late season improvement. He's still a good defensemen but no longer elite and it didn't help Anderson and Valimaki didn't have great years to offset the Gio's decline.
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