Player Discussion Charlie McAvoy IV

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He's always played his best hockey when paired with Grizz. Now he's got Lohrei (who's still a work in progress) and before that, Zadorov.

Not gonna make excuses for him.,....he needs to be better. But I don't think you can disregard that fact, either.
 
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He's always played his best hockey when paired with Grizz. Now he's got Lohrei (who's still a work in progress) and before that, Zadorov.

Not gonna make excuses for him.,....he needs to be better. But I don't think you can disregard that fact, either.
Maybe you are right, but he is too good a defenseman, to be playing like this and certainly being enough not to play like this. Lately I find him to be invisible, that not like him, I will say get him off the PP
 
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He's always played his best hockey when paired with Grizz. Now he's got Lohrei (who's still a work in progress) and before that, Zadorov.

Not gonna make excuses for him.,....he needs to be better. But I don't think you can disregard that fact, either.
Great players make average players better, average players don't make great players worse.
 

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He's always played his best hockey when paired with Grizz. Now he's got Lohrei (who's still a work in progress) and before that, Zadorov.

Not gonna make excuses for him.,....he needs to be better. But I don't think you can disregard that fact, either.
Fair enough ,but just watching him you can see his play has dropped off significantly
 

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It would be one thing if it was just a bad stretch, but he has been their worst defenseman two playoffs in a row.

He’s just not the $9.5M #1 stud that they paid him to be. I wish they moved on from him before the rest of the league figured that out.
 
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He's always played his best hockey when paired with Grizz. Now he's got Lohrei (who's still a work in progress) and before that, Zadorov.

Not gonna make excuses for him.,....he needs to be better. But I don't think you can disregard that fact, either.
He was good with Mike Reilly and Hampus Lindholm as well. This is the first time I can remember wondering about his toolbox because the tools are certainly there and always have been. Those two Florida series have seemed to do some damage maybe. Ages 22-24 he had three top 10 Norris finishes and now just doesn't seem the same player. He's going into his prime though, so the book is not complete.
 
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It would be one thing if it was just a bad stretch, but he has been their worst defenseman two playoffs in a row.

He’s just not the $9.5M #1 stud that they paid him to be. I wish they moved on from him before the rest of the league figured that out.
remember when people would say, Orr, Bourque, Chara….McAvoy? Yeah, I remember that. Good times
 
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He's been looking like a #2 for quite awhile now. Probably doesn't have the offensive goods to fetch norris finalist votes. Oh well, i guess. not yet 27 which is nice
 

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I hate to see him turning into Darnell Nurse, and I hope that the trend does not continue. He was paid more than he was worth last contract in hopes that he would arrive as a top 5 d man in the league, and it looked like he was on his way. He seems to have regressed.
Everything turned for the worse when the heart issues popped up as I remember it.
 
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He's been looking like a #2 for quite awhile now. Probably doesn't have the offensive goods to fetch norris finalist votes. Oh well, i guess. not yet 27 which is nice

He's definitely looking like #2 this season. :baghead:

Everything turned for the worse when the heart issues popped up as I remember it.

You know, I had forgotten completely about that. I wonder how that affects him mentally, if at all? Physically?
 

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9.5M player should make though around him better and not need a specific partner to excel.

He's tried to be an assassin, put a target on his back and buckled under the retribution.
 

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