Chris Nilan who I respect thinks Xhekaj is playing afraid to make mistakes and is confused with how he should play which has clearly led to a player that looks worse now than he did when he was a rookie.
Coming from one of us you could take it with a grain of salt but coming from a former player that might be accurate.
Of course X is playing scared. He's making mistakes, no doubt about that and his mistakes are apparently from a different religion then every other player who makes plenty of mistakes.
First of all, we have no veterans to work with our rookies. If we had Markov or Weber, then X would be on a completely different trajectory. Instead we have the lost puppies playing with other lost puppies.
I wrote the previous post about X and Mailman leading to the 4th goal. A vet defenseman would of given more room to get the pass AND if X still made the mistake, they would talk about it and try not to repeat it.
We have plenty of rookies getting help from vets. Komisarek with Markov, Chiarot with Weber, etc...
