It's hilarious the amount of people defending, or demanding that Semin be back in the lineup. The guy did nothing since the season started. He's floating around, giving away the puck, making soft passes and he's not even trying to defend properly in his own zone.
Actually what's hilarious is the amount of people that continue to spew the myth the Semin is somehow not a good defensive player.
This began in the summer right after he was signed when tons of people that clearly didn't know much about him as a player claimed he was weak defensively and now it continues to happen even though, you would think, people that post here would be people that watch the games.
Semin has been getting in pass lanes, picking pockets and back checking. To say he doesn't defend properly in his own zone is patently false. You go on to claim that he's been "floating" which is also has no basis in reality either, so it doesn't surprise me.
Though you are not doing so in this post, the various people in this thread and yesterdays thread that seem to think all the evidence is in in terms of whether or not he can be a helpful player for Montreal Top Six or not is laugh out loud funny.
This used to be a message board filled with interesting insights and observations about the Montreal Canadiens from fans that really understood the game.
That ship sailed long ago, sadly, but the bottom keeps getting lower and lower in here. It seems, for reasons I don't fully understand, that a large contingent of the posters here only deal in hyperbole. They can't just not like David Desharnais. They have to think he's barely an AHL player and that he can't be an NHLer on any team in the league. They can't just not be impressed with Devante Smith-Pelly following his acquisition, they have to declare him fat, slow and useless and the doesn't belong in the NHL. Now, after ten games, many of which Semin played solid two way hockey and made several nice passes (he easily could have had four additional assists on excellent passes to Alexander Galchenyuk alone) he's being declared, by many, as a bust for Montreal as if it is conclusively known that he can't help this team.
Only a fool would make that determination after just ten games. But if the shoe fits...
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