Johnny is only good defensively by controlling the puck. Put him off puck and he’s hopeless. He’s not going to check someone off the puck or strip a player. Sutter put him in a spot where they could just control the puck and have amazing defensive numbers despite not being good defensively. Then he goes to a system without that structure or Lindholm there to back him up and yeah his warts show a bit more now. Anyway I think Tkachuk can do well and is doing mostly fine. I don’t know if that team will ever do much because they’ve traded so many futures. But Johnny I can confidently say is doomed to years of obscure 90 point seasons. Maybe he’s the new Marcel Dionne.
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