I said BEFORE when Rotenberg drastically cut his ice time. His ice time has been cut recently as well, but my point was that there is a difference between his play now vs when his ice time was cut before, which you just acknowledged.
Again, maybe he is worn down a bit, or maybe he is fed up with Rotenberg’s antics, that was the question I was posing.
Imo, it could be either one, a bit of both, or he could just be slumping. However, it’s a bit too much of a coincidence that this little skid coincides with Rotenberg cutting his ice time, and it seems like an even further coincidence that Rotenberg decided to cut his ice time shortly after he took over the scoring lead for the team, which he still has despite the slide.