He's gotten progressively better, not worse, over the last two years, but his heralded emergence as a star was a bit premature. He benefitted by playing with Kopitar and Kempe last year and, unsurprisingly, he's not having the same success away from them this season (while they're having similar success with a new kid, Lafferiere, who was taken a few rounds later). I'm sure that he'll eventually get going as the team gets going, but that's the thing. He still isn't a difference maker, and you hope for that from a #2OA pick. He can still get there, though. He's improving. It's just happening more slowly than a lot of us hoped, even knowing that he'd be a late bloomer.
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