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Originally Posted by neo45
I think Gio played with playoff intensity every night, then in playoffs everyone matched his intensity and he had nowhere to turn the dial up to and would end up looking sloppy trying to do too much
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I've never really bought into that line of thinking. There are guys in every sport who make their living by bringing it to every single game. These players don't traditionally disappear in the playoffs.
Gio's playoff performance is a small sample size but I don't attribute it to everyone else now being as amped up as he was. He just didn't play very well. There is more game planning in the playoffs and he would have been the only defenseman on the team for which an other team would have had a plan. Maybe he just struggled with making adjustments to that and doesn't seem he had a coaching staff who helped him much either.