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[Jerry the great]

Wouldn't say awesome but point wise he's fine. But he doesn't bring much else to the game thus far. +/- is generally a poor stat but when you are sitting at -47 for your 90 game career it goes beyond he plays on a bad team to he's a major reason why they are bad defensively. Obviously he is very young with significant improvement ahead of him. However, people saying he is Patrick Kane but playing center seem pretty accurate at this point. Problem is you don't want Patrick Kane playing center...

Last year his -311 shot attempt differential was the 2nd worst by a Blackhawks forward since the league has been tracking this metric (2009/10). 32nd worst by a forward league wide. To say his defensive game needs work would be the understatement of the year, and yeah, he should not be playing C at this level at this point in his career. He's neither strong enough, nor fast enough and couldn't win a faceoff to save a drowning baby.

 

[vancityluongo]

Zadorov might just be regretting not taking our four year offer.

zadorov might just be the player he showed himself to be his entire career, outside of a couple month stretch with the canucks

a bottom pairing defenseman